African Languages in the Field: speech Fundamentals and Automation
ALFFA partners participate to the Global Learning XPRIZE: The project is participating in a competition called Global Learning XPRIZE: http://learning.xprize.org The solutions will be delivered to XPRIZE for judging November 2016. Then there will be a 6-month judging period, and the …
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During SLTU 2016 workshop in Indonesia, various institutions that have been working on under-resourced languages came and sat together to discuss the “Future of Under-Resourced Languages”. The SLTU 2016_Panelist List as well as the slides presented there are gathered on this …
Laurent Besacier is now in the ELRA Workgroup on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL) Technical Committee. The ELRA Workgroup on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL) intends to bring together a number of professionals involved in the development of language resources and technologies for less-resourced …
ALFFA ASR Resources are now mirrored on OpenSLR. http://www.openslr.org/25/ OpenSLR is a site devoted to hosting speech and language resources, such as training corpora for speech recognition, and software related to speech recognition. OpenSLR is an initiative from John Hopkins University …
http://talaf.imag.fr/2016/ TALAf workshops take place every two years. The first workshop was held during the JEP-TALN-RÉCITAL 2012 conference on June 8, 2012 in Grenoble (see proceedings: http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/#1300). The second one took place during the TALN 2014 conference on July 1, …
All the data and scripts to build a complete ASR system for Wolof (based on Kaldi toolkit) is made available to the public on GitHub. Wolof repository is composed of the kaldi recipes + ressources (the transcribed speech corpus with audio, …
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This paper deals with ASR for two languages: Hausa and Wolof. Their common characteristic is to appear with vowel length contrast. In other words, two versions (short / long) of a same vowel exist in the phoneme inventory of the …
This article presents the data collected and ASR systems developped for 4 sub-saharan african languages (Swahili, Hausa, Amharic and Wolof). To illustrate our methodology, the focus is made on Wolof (a very under-resourced language) for which we designed the first …
Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications Organizers Martine Adda-Decker1 (madda@limsi.fr) – CNRS – LPP and LIMSI, France. Laurent Besacier2 (laurent.besacier@imag.fr) – Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France – LIG laboratory. Marelie Davel3 (marelie.davel@nwu.ac.za) – North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. Larry Hyman4 …
Next ALFFA meeting will be held on 26 jan 2016 in Grenoble… Schedule (in French) 9h-9h30 Accueil/Café 9h30-10h Retour sur évaluation mi-parcours ANR & aspect contractuels éventuels 10h-12h Bilan activités par partenaire LIG, VOX, DDL, LIA 12h-13h Repas (plateaux) 13h-14h Objectifs à court …