AfriSwitch: A Benchmark for In-the-Wild African Code-Switched Speech Recognition

arXiv:2608.26434 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Benchmark — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alternation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Code-Mixing Index — 3× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Data Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop — 1× in this paper
• Pragmatics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
• WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus
• FLEURS: Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech
• The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages
• Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages
• Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages
• Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages
• Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
• The ASRU 2019 Mandarin-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition Challenge: Open Datasets, Tracks, Methods and Results
• CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
• Adapting OpenAI's Whisper for Speech Recognition on Code-Switch Mandarin-English SEAME and ASRU2019 Datasets
• Building a Unified Code-Switching ASR System for South African Languages

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