Preuve de concept d’un bot vocal dialoguant en wolof (Proof-of-Concept of a Voicebot Speaking Wolof)

no code implementations • JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2022 • Elodie Gauthier, Papa Séga Wade, Thierry Moudenc, Patrice Collen, Emilie De Neef, Oumar Ba, Ndeye Khoyane Cama, Ahmadou Bamba Kebe, Ndeye Aissatou Gningue, Thomas Mendo’O Aristide

Cet article présente la preuve de concept du premier assistant vocal automatique en wolof, première langue véhiculaire parlée au Sénégal.

Preuve de concept d'un bot vocal dialoguant en wolof

no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Elodie Gauthier, Papa-Séga Wade, Thierry Moudenc, Patrice Collen, Emilie De Neef, Oumar Ba, Ndeye Khoyane Cama, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Kebe, Ndeye Aissatou Gningue, Thomas Mendo'o Aristide

This paper presents the proof-of-concept of the first automatic voice assistant ever built in Wolof language, the main vehicular language spoken in Senegal.

Kallaama: A Transcribed Speech Dataset about Agriculture in the Three Most Widely Spoken Languages in Senegal

1 code implementation • 2 Apr 2024 • Elodie Gauthier, Aminata Ndiaye, Abdoulaye Guissé

To build such technologies, we provide textual corpora in Wolof and Pulaar, and a pronunciation lexicon containing 49, 132 entries from the Wolof dataset.

Automatic Speech Recognition speech-recognition +1

Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context

no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Antoine Caubrière, Elodie Gauthier

We present the first self-supervised multilingual speech model trained exclusively on African speech.

Parallel Corpora in Mboshi (Bantu C25, Congo-Brazzaville)

no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Annie Rialland, Martine Adda-Decker, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Gilles Adda, Laurent Besacier, Lori Lamel, Elodie Gauthier, Pierre Godard, Jamison Cooper-Leavitt

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +4

Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof

no code implementations • 1 Jun 2017 • Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Sylvie Voisin

Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics.

Collecting Resources in Sub-Saharan African Languages for Automatic Speech Recognition: a Case Study of Wolof

1 code implementation • LREC 2016 • Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Sylvie Voisin, Michael Melese, Uriel Pascal Elingui

This article presents the data collected and ASR systems developped for 4 sub-saharan african languages (Swahili, Hausa, Amharic and Wolof).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1