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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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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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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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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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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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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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Focus marking in Kuria

This paper examines focus marking in Kuria. We propose an account of the syntax/semantics of the prefix /ne-/. This prefix displays a varied syntactic distribution, posing a puzzle as to what semantically unifies all of its uses. In focus constructions, /ne-/ oblig...

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Folio Online & Folio Translation Consultants

Founded in 1988, the Folio Group has grown from a tiny start-up into the major-league language service provider that it is today. This is largely driven by our reputation for reliability, technical expertise, fast turnaround and meticulous accuracy. Folio is recogn...

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Gboard - the Google Keyboard

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

Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages

This work supports further development of language technology for the languages of Africa by providing a Wikidata-derived resource of name lists corresponding to common entity types (person, location, and organization). While we are not the first to mine Wikidata f...

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Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages

This work supports further development of language technology for the languages of Africa by providing a Wikidata-derived resource of name lists corresponding to common entity types (person, location, and organization). While we are not the first to mine Wikidata f...

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Multitran dictionary

A multilingual dictionary to search for words or phrases in a variety of African languages....

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NLLB-CLIP -- train performant multilingual image retrieval model on a budget

Today, the exponential rise of large models developed by academic and industrial institutions with the help of massive computing resources raises the question of whether someone without access to such resources can make a valuable scientific contribution. To explor...

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