Search Results for author: Michael Melese

Found 7 papers, 1 papers with code

Large Vocabulary Read Speech Corpora for Four Ethiopian Languages: Amharic, Tigrigna, Oromo, and Wolaytta

no code implementations • WS 2020 • Solomon Teferra Abate, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Michael Melese, Hafte Abera, Tewodros Gebreselassie, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie, Million Meshesha Beyene, Solomon Atinafu, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum

To address this problem we have developed four medium-sized (longer than 22 hours each) speech corpora for four Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Tigrigna, Oromo, and Wolaytta.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

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Large Vocabulary Read Speech Corpora for Four Ethiopian Languages: Amharic, Tigrigna, Oromo and Wolaytta

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Solomon Teferra Abate, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Michael Melese, Hafte Abera, Tewodros Abebe, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Afnafu, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum

To assess usability of the corpora for (the purpose of) speech processing, we have developed ASR systems for each language.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

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English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Solomon Teferra Abate, Michael Melese, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Atinafu, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie, Hafte Abera, Biniyam Ephrem, Tewodros Gebreselassie, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa, Amanuel Lemma, Tsegaye Andargie, Seifedin Shifaw

In this paper, we describe an attempt towards the development of parallel corpora for English and Ethiopian Languages, such as Amharic, Tigrigna, Afan-Oromo, Wolaytta and Ge{'}ez.

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Parallel Corpora for bi-Directional Statistical Machine Translation for Seven Ethiopian Language Pairs

no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Solomon Teferra Abate, Michael Melese, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Atinafu, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie, Hafte Abera, Binyam Ephrem, Tewodros Abebe, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye, Amanuel Lemma, Tsegaye Andargie, Seifedin Shifaw

Based on the results we obtained, we are currently working towards handling the morphological complexities to improve the performance of statistical machine translation among the Ethiopian languages.

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Parallel Corpora for bi-lingual English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation

In this paper, we describe an attempt towards the development of parallel corpora for English and Ethiopian Languages, such as Amharic, Tigrigna, Afan-Oromo, Wolaytta and Ge{'}ez.

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Amharic-English Speech Translation in Tourism Domain

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Michael Melese, Laurent Besacier, Million Meshesha

This paper describes speech translation from Amharic-to-English, particularly Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with post-editing feature and Amharic-English Statistical Machine Translation (SMT).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +4

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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).

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