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
In ASR/AMHARIC/ you will find kaldi recipes + ressources - see README file for more details and ASR performance results that you should be able to reproduce - please cite this paper if you publish work using these resources:

@InProceedings {Abate2005,
	Author = {Solomon Teferra Abate and Wolfgang Menzel and Bairu Tafila},
	booktitle = {INTERSPEECH-2005},
	Title =  {An Amharic Speech Corpus for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition},
	Year = {2005}
}

• SWAHILI
(this swahili ASR system is now available in the Kaldi master branch)
In ASR/SWAHILI/ you will find kaldi recipes + ressources - see README file for more details and ASR performance results that you should be able to reproduce - please cite this paper if you publish work using theses resources:

@InProceedings {gelas:hal-00954048,
	author = {Gelas, Hadrien and Besacier, Laurent and Pellegrino, Francois},
	title = {{D}evelopments of {S}wahili resources for an automatic speech recognition system},
	booktitle = {{SLTU} - {W}orkshop on {S}poken {L}anguage {T}echnologies for {U}nder-{R}esourced {L}anguages},
	year = {2012},
	address = {Cape-Town, Afrique Du Sud},
	abstract = {no abstract},
	x-international-audience = {yes},
	url = {http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00954048}
}

• WOLOF
In ASR/WOLOF/ you will find kaldi recipes + ressources - see README file for more details and ASR performance results that you should be able to reproduce - please cite this paper if you publish work using theses resources:

@article {gauthier2016collect,
	Author = {Gauthier, Elodie and Besacier, Laurent and Voisin, Sylvie and Melese, Michael and Elingui, Uriel Pascal},
	Journal = {LREC},
	Title = {Collecting Resources in Sub-Saharan African Languages for Automatic Speech Recognition: a Case Study of Wolof},
	Year = {2016}
}