Papers by Iroro Orife

4 papers
ÌròyìnSpeech: A Multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: rynSpeech corpus is a dataset that can be used for both Text-to-Speecher (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) speakers of many African languages have no access to voice-enabled applications in their native languages.
Approach: They propose a dataset to collect Yorùbá speech data that can be used for both TTS and ASR tasks.
Outcome: The proposed dataset can generate a good quality model with as little as 5 hours of speech . the results are consistent with previous studies on the Yorùbá language .
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages (2021.tacl-1)

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Challenge: (2020) African languages are underrepresented in existing natural language processing datasets, research, and tools due to lack of datasets and reproducible results.
Approach: They propose to create a dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages.
Outcome: The results of the first large dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages are released to inform future research on African NLP.

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