MendoLeo/african-low-resource-speech

World Collection of SOTA NLP papers, tools, datasets, and technologies analysis for Africain languages. # 🌍 African Low-Resource Speech > A collaborative knowledge base on **TTS**, **ASR**, **MT**, and **Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST)** for African low-resource languages. --- ## 📖 About This repository curates **scientific papers, datasets, tools, and community initiatives** focused on extending **speech technologies** to **African low-resource languages**. It aims to help researchers, engineers, and policy makers find **relevant resources** to build **inclusive** and **accessible** speech applications. --- ## 📚 Content Overview | Category | Description | Links | |----------|-------------|------| | **Papers** | Scientific articles grouped by technology (with titles, abstracts & links). | TTS • ASR • S2ST | | **Datasets** | Publicly available corpora for training or evaluation (speech, text, bilingual). | Datasets | | **Tools** | Frameworks, tutorials, and open-source projects (Fairseq, MMS, Whisper, Coqui, etc.). | Tools | | **Community** | Research labs, organizations, and initiatives supporting African language technologies. | Community | --- ## 🔎 Papers by Category Each paper entry follows this template inside its respective file: | Type | Title | Description | Link | |------|------|-------------|------| | TTS | **Meta MMS** | Large multilingual speech synthesis model supporting 1,100+ languages. | Paper | 👉 Add your contributions via Pull Request. --- ## 🤝 Contributing We welcome **new papers, datasets, tools, and contacts**. To contribute: 1. Fork this repository. 2. Edit the relevant file (e.g., `papers/tts.md`). 3. Submit a Pull Request. Please follow the provided templates to maintain consistency. --- ## 💡 Motivation > African languages remain **under-represented** in speech technology. > By sharing knowledge and resources, we can accelerate research and > make **speech AI accessible to all**. --- ## 📜 License This repository is released under the **MIT License**. See LICENSE for details. --- ### ⭐️ Acknowledgments Inspired by projects s …