Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili

no code implementations • 29 Oct 2022 • Ebbie Awino, Lilian Wanzare, Lawrence Muchemi, Barack Wanjawa, Edward Ombui, Florence Indede, Owen McOnyango, Benard Okal

Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under-resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks

no code implementations • 25 Aug 2022 • Barack Wanjawa, Lilian Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen McOnyango, Edward Ombui, Lawrence Muchemi

The Kencorpus dataset is a text and speech corpus for three languages predominantly spoken in Kenya: Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya.

Machine Translation Part-Of-Speech Tagging +3

KenSwQuAD -- A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language

no code implementations • 4 May 2022 • Barack W. Wanjawa, Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen McOnyango, Lawrence Muchemi, Edward Ombui

The need for Question Answering datasets in low resource languages is the motivation of this research, leading to the development of Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset, KenSwQuAD.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Question Answering +1