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African Storybook Project

The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. An initiative of Saide, the ASb has an interactive website that enab...

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A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

Recent advances in the pre-training of language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these datasets. This is primarily because many widely spoken languages are not well represente...

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A massively parallel corpus: the Bible in 100 languages

We describe the creation of a massively parallel corpus based on 100 translations of the Bible. We discuss some of the difficulties in acquiring and processing the raw material as well as the potential of the Bible as a corpus for natural language processing. Final...

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AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages

Language identification (LID) is a crucial precursor for NLP, especially for mining web data. Problematically, most of the world's 7000+ languages today are not covered by LID technologies. We address this pressing issue for Africa by introducing AfroLID, a neural ...

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AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages

AfroLID is a powerful neural toolkit for African languages identification which covers 517 African languages....

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Bible Para

This is a multilingual parallel corpus created from translations of the Bible compiled by Christos Christodoulopoulos and Mark Steedman. 102 languages, 5,148 bitexts total number of files: 107 total number of tokens: 56.43M total number of sentence fragments: 2.84...

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Bible TTS

BibleTTS is a large high-quality open Text-to-Speech dataset with up to 80 hours of single speaker, studio quality 48kHz recordings for each language. We release aligned speech and text for six languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa, with unaligned data for four ad...

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BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus

BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single speaker recordings per language, enabling the development of high-quality text-to-speec...

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CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset

A dataset of over 700 different languages providing audio, aligned text and word pronunciations. On average each language provides around 20 hours of sentence-lengthed transcriptions. Data is mined from read New Testaments from http://www.bible.is/

CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset (Paper)

This paper describes the CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset. A dataset of over 700 different languages providing audio, aligned text and word pronunciations. On average each language provides around 20 hours of sentence-lengthed transcriptions. We describe ...

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Documenting praise names ahanoŋkɔ among Ewes: A socio-semantic perspective

Names generally identify an individual and set him/her apart from other individuals. The Ewe (ISO639-3 [ewe])-speaking people of Ghana are known to have names which reflect an idea that a name giver or name bearer intends to put across. These names could be given d...

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Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Gboard is a virtual keyboard app developed by Google for Android and iOS devices.

Localization for Africa

Bolingo Consult is a female-led LSP that makes localization for African Languages a seamless pro-cess. We have experience in navigating the complexities in localization for African languages. Our services range from translation, interpretation and media localizat...

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MAFAND-MT: Masakhane Anglo & Franco Africa News Dataset for Machine Translation

Recent advances in the pre-training of language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these datasets. This is primarily because many widely spoken languages are not well represente...

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Mandla African language dictionary

The Mandla dictionary is an online open source crowd sourced dictionary for African languages. It features definitions, etymology, and example sentences written in the native language using both indigenous scripts and latin script, as well as parallel definitions w...

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