ASR-ALFFA: African Languages in the Field (Speech Fundamentals and Automation)

About this resource:

This data is transcribed speech data, in Amharic and Swahili and Wolof.

This repository is a result of the ALFFA project http://alffa.imag.fr
A summary of these resources and ASR performances, as well as a description of the ALFFA project has been published in the following paper:

Collecting Resources in Sub-Saharan African Languages for Automatic Speech Recognition: a Case Study of Wolof.
Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Sylvie Voisin, Michael Melese and Uriel Pascal Elingui.
To appear at LREC 2016.

So far, the ASR directory contains Kaldi recipes for 4 languages: Amharic, Swahili, Hausa and Wolof.

• AMHARIC
• SWAHILI
• WOLOF

External URLs:
https://github.com/besacier/ALFFA_PUBLIC/tree/master/ASR/AMHARIC   (Amharic data )
https://github.com/besacier/ALFFA_PUBLIC/tree/master/ASR/SWAHILI   (Swahili data )
https://github.com/besacier/ALFFA_PUBLIC/tree/master/ASR/WOLOF   (Wolof data)