@inproceedings{dossou-emezue-2021-okwugbe,
title = "{O}kwu{G}b{\'e}: End-to-End Speech Recognition for {F}on and {I}gbo",
author = "Dossou, Bonaventure F. P. and
Emezue, Chris Chinenye",
editor = "Varis, Erika and
Georgi, Ryan and
Tsai, Alicia and
Anastasopoulos, Antonios and
Chandu, Kyathi and
Schofield, Xanda and
Ranathunga, Surangika and
Lepp, Haley and
Ghosal, Tirthankar",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Widening Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.winlp-1.1",
pages = "1--4",
abstract = "Language is a fundamental component of human communication. African low-resourced languages have recently been a major subject of research in machine translation, and other text-based areas of NLP. However, there is still very little comparable research in speech recognition for African languages. OkwuGb{\'e} is a step towards building speech recognition systems for African low-resourced languages. Using Fon and Igbo as our case study, we build two end-to-end deep neural network-based speech recognition models. We present a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Fon, and a benchmark ASR model result for Igbo. Our findings serve both as a guide for future NLP research for Fon and Igbo in particular, and the creation of speech recognition models for other African low-resourced languages in general. The Fon and Igbo models source code have been made publicly available. Moreover, Okwugbe, a python library has been created to make easier the process of ASR model building and training.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[OkwuGbé: End-to-End Speech Recognition for Fon and Igbo](https://aclanthology.org/2021.winlp-1.1) (Dossou & Emezue, WiNLP 2021)
ACL
- Bonaventure F. P. Dossou and Chris Chinenye Emezue. 2021. OkwuGbé: End-to-End Speech Recognition for Fon and Igbo. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Widening Natural Language Processing, pages 1–4, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.