2 papers
cs.HC2025
Building AI-based advisory services for smallholder farmers: Technical learnings from the AIEP Initiative
Stewart Collis, Florence Kinyua, Vikram Kumar +4
We report technical learnings from five AI-based agricultural advisory MVPs deployed in Kenya and Bihar, India, under the AIEP Initiative. A 800-farmer study found high user satisf…
cs.CL2025
Synthetic Voice Data for Automatic Speech Recognition in African Languages
Brian DeRenzi, Anna Dixon, Mohamed Aymane Farhi +1
Speech technology remains out of reach for most of the over 2300 languages in Africa. We present the first systematic assessment of large-scale synthetic voice corpora for African…