đź“– Abstract
Most speech technology exists for high-resource languages, leaving low-resource languages like Idoma digitally underrepresented. This project bridges that gap by developing a fully functional Bidirectional English-Idoma Speech System.
The system utilizes an Applied Research Design to solve data scarcity and tonal complexity issues inherent in the Idoma language. It integrates three fine-tuned transformer models to enable natural conversation flow: