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This research introduces SunflowerASR, a new speech recognition model optimized for low-resource African languages using Group Relative Policy Optimisation. It demonstrates…
AfriBED is a new speech recognition bias evaluation dataset created for two low-resource African languages, Bemba and Nyanja. This dataset enables the detection and estimation of…
A new dataset, AfriBED, has been created to evaluate and reduce speaker-attribute bias in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for low-resource African languages,…
Nigerian AI startup Intron is developing voice recognition technology specifically tailored for diverse African accents and languages to improve efficiency in sectors like…
A new 174-hour Ewe ASR benchmark, 'Nufo', has been released, providing a crucial resource for developing speech recognition technology for this major West African language. This…
Morocco has launched new open-source AI tools, including a dialect classifier and a multilingual speech recognition model, specifically tailored for Moroccan Arabic. This…
Intron's Sahara v2.5 significantly advances African voice AI by enabling computers to understand and process conversations that mix multiple languages. This innovation is crucial…
Lagos-based Intron has unveiled Sahara v2.5, a voice AI system specifically designed to handle code-switching in African languages, a common linguistic pattern across the…
DONDO is an open-source AI project providing automatic speech recognition models specifically for twenty-seven African language varieties across six countries. These models aim to…
DONDO is an open-source initiative providing new AI-powered automatic speech recognition models specifically for twenty-seven African language varieties across Ghana, Sierra…
This study demonstrates a significant step in adapting advanced AI speech recognition technology for specific Kenyan languages, including Kikuyu, Dholuo, and Kalenjin. By…
AfriVox-v2 is a new benchmark specifically designed to evaluate speech recognition models under realistic and noisy African conditions. It focuses on African languages and diverse…
New research demonstrates that specialized AI models, fine-tuned on the WAXAL corpus of 19 African languages, significantly outperform larger general-purpose models in automatic…
