4 papers
AfriMed-QA: A Pan-African, Multi-Specialty, Medical Question-Answering Benchmark Dataset
Tobi Olatunji, Charles Nimo, Abraham Owodunni +23
Recent advancements in large language model(LLM) performance on medical multiple choice question (MCQ) benchmarks have stimulated interest from healthcare providers and patients gl…
The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages
Chris Emezue, NaijaVoices Community, Busayo Awobade +8
The development of high-performing, robust, and reliable speech technologies depends on large, high-quality datasets. However, African languages -- including our focus, Igbo, Hausa…
1000 African Voices: Advancing inclusive multi-speaker multi-accent speech synthesis
Sewade Ogun, Abraham T. Owodunni, Tobi Olatunji +6
Recent advances in speech synthesis have enabled many useful applications like audio directions in Google Maps, screen readers, and automated content generation on platforms like T…
Performant ASR Models for Medical Entities in Accented Speech
Tejumade Afonja, Tobi Olatunji, Sewade Ogun +3
Recent strides in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have accelerated their application in the medical domain where their performance on accented medical named entities (NE) such a…