4 papers
DONDO: Open w2v-BERT Speech-Recognition Base Models for African Languages
Paul Azunre, Naafi Ibrahim, Joel Budu +1
We present DONDO, a family of open, permissively licensed automatic speech recognition (ASR) base models for African languages, built on the w2v-BERT 2.0 self-supervised speech enc…
Nsanku: Evaluating Zero-Shot Translation Performance of LLMs for Ghanaian Languages
Stephen E. Moore, Mich-Seth Owusu, Akwasi Asare +13
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive multilingual capabilities for well-resourced languages, yet their performance on low-resource African languages remains po…
GhanaNLP Parallel Corpora: Comprehensive Multilingual Resources for Low-Resource Ghanaian Languages
Lawrence Adu Gyamfi, Paul Azunre, Stephen Edward Moore +4
Low resource languages present unique challenges for natural language processing due to the limited availability of digitized and well structured linguistic data. To address this g…
AI and the Future of Work in Africa White Paper
Jacki O'Neill, Vukosi Marivate, Barbara Glover +71
This white paper is the output of a multidisciplinary workshop in Nairobi (Nov 2023). Led by a cross-organisational team including Microsoft Research, NEPAD, Lelapa AI, and Univers…