2 papers
eess.AS2026
WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus
Abdoulaye Diack, Perry Nelson, Kwaku Agbesi +40
The advancement of speech technology has predominantly favored high-resource languages, creating a significant digital divide for speakers of most Sub-Saharan African languages. To…
cs.CL2025
SMOL: Professionally translated parallel data for 115 under-represented languages
Isaac Caswell, Elizabeth Nielsen, Jiaming Luo +23
We open-source SMOL (Set of Maximal Overall Leverage), a suite of training data to unlock machine translation for low-resource languages. SMOL has been translated into 124 (and gro…