When Is TTS Augmentation Through a Pivot Language Useful?
Published in INTERSPEECH 2022, 2022
Exploring how to leverage Synthetic speech in augmenting ASR training for low-resource languages.
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Publications
Building African Voices
Published in INTERSPEECH 2022, 2022
This paper is about creating TTS datasets and synthesizers for African Languages using low-cost methods.
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BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
Published in INTERSPEECH 2022, 2022
In this paper we create TTS datasets by aligning African languages Bible Recordings.
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A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
Published in NAACL 2022, 2022
This paper is about the translations of African languages
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Quality-Aware Decoding for Neural Machine Translation
Published in NAACL 2022, 2022
This paper is about using quality estimations during MT decoding
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Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
Published in EMNLP Findings, 2020
This paper is about participatory research for low-resourced machine translation.
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MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
Published in TACL 2021, 2020
This paper is about the creation of a NER dataset for 10 African languages
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