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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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African Voices

African Voices is a collaborative project that aims to collects high-quality speech (tts) datasets and synthesizers for all African languages. You can search datasets and synthesizers by language. You can also synthesize text from your synthesizer of choice. Additi...

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AfriVEC: Word Embedding Models for African Languages. Case Study of Fon and Nobiin

From Word2Vec to GloVe, word embedding models have played key roles in the current state-of-the-art results achieved in Natural Language Processing. Designed to give significant and unique vectorized representations of words and entities, those models have proven t...

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AfriVEC: Word Embedding Models for African Languages. Case Study of Fon and Nobiin

From Word2Vec to GloVe, word embedding models have played key roles in the current state-of-the-art results achieved in Natural Language Processing. Designed to give significant and unique vectorized representations of words and entities, those models have proven t...

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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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ALFFA_PUBLIC

This repository is a result of the ALFFA project http://alffa.imag.fr We distribute READY-to-use (or READY-to-train) KALDI ASR systems and (when possible) associated corpora..

Ancestor-to-Creole Transfer is Not a Walk in the Park

We aim to learn language models for Creole languages for which large volumes of data are not readily available, and therefore explore the potential transfer from ancestor languages (the 'Ancestry Transfer Hypothesis'). We find that standard transfer methods do not ...

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Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning

Datasets are foundational to many breakthroughs in modern artificial intelligence. Many recent achievements in the space of natural language processing (NLP) can be attributed to the finetuning of pre-trained models on a diverse set of tasks that enables a large la...

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BloomLM

This version of the Bloom Library data is developed specifically for the language modeling task. It includes data from nearly 400 languages across 35 language families, with many of the languages represented being extremely low resourced languages. Note: If you sp...

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Building African Voices

Modern speech synthesis techniques can produce natural-sounding speech given sufficient high-quality data and compute resources. However, such data is not readily available for many languages. This paper focuses on speech synthesis for low-resourced African languag...

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Citations en Fongbé

Le Numérique au service des langues béninoises. Nous faisons la promotion des langues béninoises à travers des solutions numériques inspirées de la culture béninoise et africaine. IAMYOURCLOUNON. Community page. Digital at the service of Beninese languages. We pro...

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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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Contrastive focus particles in Kusaal

This paper presents and discusses the particles used in expressing contrastive fo- cus in Kusaal, a Gur language spoken in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo. Contrary to the earlier claim made by Abubakari (2011) that focus is morphologically null in the language, the p...

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