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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · 6d ago7/103

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WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus

Researchers have released WAXAL, a large-scale multilingual speech dataset covering 24 Sub-Saharan African languages representing over 100 million speakers. The dataset includes 1,250 hours of transcribed speech for ASR and 235 hours of high-quality recordings for TTS, released under CC-BY-4.0 license to advance inclusive AI technologies.

AIBullishMicrosoft Research Blog · Feb 56/103

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Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

Microsoft Research launched Paza, a human-centered speech recognition pipeline, and PazaBench, the first benchmark leaderboard specifically designed for low-resource languages. The initiative covers 39 African languages with 52 models and has been tested with real communities to improve AI accessibility for underrepresented languages.