Research
We study how machines hear, understand and answer in the languages of the Sahel
ProgrammesFive long-running research efforts, each with its own questions and milestones
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Speech models that listen while they speak, built for Hausa and judged against how Hausa speakers actually take turns.
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Hausa speech collected with consent and fair pay, from the people and places public datasets leave out.
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The first open, consented speech resources and honest baselines for Zarma, spoken by about six million people along the Niger.
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The methods that turn radio archives, field recordings and crowd audio into Hausa and Zarma data a model can learn from and a reader can trust.
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Test sets, text normalisation, listening protocols and benchmarks that make a Hausa or Zarma result mean something.
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Speech models that listen while they speak, built for Hausa and judged against how Hausa speakers actually take turns.
Can a machine listen while it speaks, in Hausa, and take turns the way Hausa speakers do?
Explore HiraRumbu
Hausa speech collected with consent and fair pay, from the people and places public datasets leave out.
What would Hausa speech data look like if it were collected with the people it represents?
Explore RumbuZarma
The first open, consented speech resources and honest baselines for Zarma, spoken by about six million people along the Niger.
What does it take to build speech technology for a language that almost none exists for?
Explore ZarmaTankaɗe
The methods that turn radio archives, field recordings and crowd audio into Hausa and Zarma data a model can learn from and a reader can trust.
Maʼauni
Test sets, text normalisation, listening protocols and benchmarks that make a Hausa or Zarma result mean something.