AfLaT.org - Western Africa

CMUSphinx4 Speech recognition toolkit

Shadrack — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:18:19 +0000

URL:

https://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

Description:

This is one of the appropriate tools to work on if interested in building a speech recognizer, challenges though few include building a corpus for the dialect chosen.I attained 72% recognition on a set of isolated utterances in swahili dialect. If in need of assistance with the tool, Ill be glad to help.
Shadrack

Yorupedia

Ilelolaw — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:28:26 +0000

URL:

https://www.yorupedia.com

Description:

Yorupedia created this website as a One-Stop-Shop for various audience who want to learn and know more about Yoruba language; the Niger-Congo language group spoken by over 30-35 million people in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, and other Western African countries and other Yoruba descent in North/South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
No doubt, the site is a research resource center, as it provides detailed information on:
1. Codefication of Yoruba language (from Ajami to the Standard Yoruba)
2. Yoruba Grammar- Noun, Verb, Pronoun, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.
3. Yoruba Grammatical Tree: Morphology, Phonology/Phonetics, Semantics/Pragmatics and Yoruba Syntax.
4. Yoruba Culture and History
5. Yoruba Numerals etc.

Third Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2011) - Report

Guy — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:43:36 +0000

AfLaT2011, the Third Workshop on African Language Technology, was organized as a breakout session of the AGIS11 conference (Action Week for Global Information Sharing) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It marked the first time an AfLaT workshop took place on the African continent. AfLaT2011 featured ten presentations on a variety of topics and languages.
We want to thank the presenters and participants for their contributions to the workshop, as well as the organizers of AGIS11 to allow us to collocate the AfLaT workshop with their wonderful conference.

Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) - Report

Guy — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:33:29 +0000

Invited Talk: Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?
Justus Roux

Natural Language Processing

sobusola — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:34:15 +0000

Description:

Current research is focussed on resources for corpus development

Newsletter October 2009

Guy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:48:37 +0000

Dear AfLaT member,

we would like to draw your attention to some recent highlights in African Language Technology.

(1) Google announced the availability of their Swahili Machine Translation system
https://aflat.org/?q=node/346

(2) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the National Human Language Technology Network Day 2010
https://aflat.org/?q=node/345

(3) MURI Call for White Papers: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"
https://aflat.org/?q=node/347

Also several new publications and links have recently been added. We hope to see you soon at https://AfLaT.org!

with kind regards

the AfLaT team

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers

Guy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:14:52 +0000

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers, DUE Dec 11

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

Call for White Papers

DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"

Abibitumi Kasa: Afrikan (African) Language + Liberation Institutes

Akyeame_Kwame — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:15:28 +0000

Abibitumi Kasa Classes | Abibitumi Kasa : An Afrikan Language Institute

https://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

Learn Conversational Akan (Twi), Yoruba or Wolof Online In One Month! Classes Ongoing!

Online = Accessible to Afrikans worldwide
Engaging = Interactive with live voice and video
Easy = Setup is simple and quick often requiring little to no troubleshooting

https://www.abibitumikasa.com/classes.html
https://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

What: You are invited to join one month (8 class) sessions of Conversational Twi, Yoruba or Wolof

Who: All Afrikan people who are serious about being Afrikan

When: Next class session begins the week of September 14th, 2009. Classes ongoing, beginning every month! (Click here for schedule https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/calendar.php)

Monday AND Wednesday Conversational Twi 7:00PM-9:00PM Eastern

Tuesday AND Thursday Conversational Yoruba 7:00PM-9:00PM Eastern

AND

Saturday AND Sunday Conversational Wolof 6:00PM-8:00PM

Where: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

How: To access the online member classroom, you must register for the Abibitumi Kasa site at https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

You'll need to do this if you don't have an account already.

If you already have an account at the site, login at this link: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/login.php

From there click on the link to member classroom on any page at the site at class time or visit the link to the member classroom here directly at https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

Learn to hook up your audio and/or webcam for class and more at: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/video-tutorials-how-abibitumi-kasa/

How Much: 195 USD for eight (8) class Introductory Class; Contact us about cost of advanced individual tutorials https://www.abibitumikasa.com/contact.html

Why: Repatriation, Visit, Interacting with Family, and more. Let us know your reason for wanting to learn Afrikan languages via our Prospective Student Questionnaire https://www.abibitumikasa.com/nsemmisa.pdf

Four Simple Steps to SUCCESSFUL registration for class:

Have you registered for the class: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

Have you submitted payment for the class: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/payment.html

Have you registered and logged into the forums: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

Have you clicked on member classroom (where the classes are held): https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

View Class Requirements:
https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/faq.php?faq=onlineclasses

Our other classes include:
(Click the class name for details)

Mwalimu Baruti Eureason Course Online

Mwalimu Baruti Afrikan Centered Sociology Course Online

Akinjide Bonotchi Mongomery's Introduction Medew Netcher Course Online

Professor Griff: Psychological Covert War on Hip-Hop Course Online

Akhu Yaw Kamau: Afrikan Mathematics Course Online

Ogechi Amadi's Holistic Child Development Course Online

Dr Runoko Rashidi: Around the World with Runoko Rashidi (Begins again winter 2009)

Ras Ariel: Repatriation Course 101

Baba Balogun Abeegunde: Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within

Dr. Kamau Kambon: Seminar: Food Health and You: Why Afrikans Die So Young Course Online (TBA)

Zhiizhii Prince: Kiswahili I Course Online (TBA)

Kentake Mut Merimut: AkokO Nan: Protection and Guardianship of Our Afrikan Children in the Age of WAR Course Online (TBA)

Keidi Obi Awadu: The Great AIDS Hoax Course Online (TBA)

Dr. Hassimi Oumarou Maiga: Songhoy I (Offered based on interest)

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Web Site Flore

Enguehard — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:52:45 +0000

URL:

https://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/flore/

Description:

This web site present the name of African trees in different languages.
Today there are 375 names, 17 languages.
The language of communication is French, but browing is very simple.

Mande Languages

Guy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:22:41 +0000

URL:

https://mandelang.kunstkamera.ru/

Description:

Exhaustive site on Mande languages in Russian, French and English

AfLaT.org - Western Africa

CMUSphinx4 Speech recognition toolkit

Yorupedia

Third Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2011) - Report

Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) - Report

Invited Talk: Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?

Natural Language Processing

Newsletter October 2009

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers, DUE Dec 11

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

Call for White Papers DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"

Abibitumi Kasa: Afrikan (African) Language + Liberation Institutes

Web Site Flore

Mande Languages

Call for White Papers

DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"