The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus: A Luganda Radio Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work in the area of radio browsing using automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been done by the United Nations in Uganda, and Keyword Spotting systems in Somalia. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Luganda radio speech corpus of 155 hours to build a usable radio monitoring automatic speech recognition system. |
| Outcome: | The makerere artificial intelligence lab releases a Luganda radio speech corpus of 155 hours. |
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