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

DNN-Based Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Wolaytta using Oromo Speech

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Solomon Teferra Abate, Tanja Schultz

Our results show the possibility of developing ASR system for a language, if we have pronunciation dictionary and language model, using an existing speech corpus of another language irrespective of their language family.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

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

Analysis of GlobalPhone and Ethiopian Languages Speech Corpora for Multilingual ASR

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Solomon Teferra Abate, Tanja Schultz

From GP, Turkish, Uyghur and Croatian are found to have much overlap with the Ethiopian languages.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

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.

Machine Translation Translation

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

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

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.

Machine Translation Translation

Analyse des performances de mod\`eles de langage sub-lexicale pour des langues peu-dot\'ees \`a morphologie riche (Performance analysis of sub-word language modeling for under-resourced languages with rich morphology: case study on Swahili and Amharic) [in French]

no code implementations • JEPTALNRECITAL 2012 • Hadrien Gelas, Solomon Teferra Abate, Laurent Besacier, Fran{\c{c}}ois Pellegrino

Language Modelling