Benchmarking and Domain Adaptation of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Adolescent Health Communication in Ghanaian Languages

arXiv:2609.29798 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/GhanaNLP/recorder

Terminology

• Adaptation — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 15× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmarking — 11× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health — 1× in this paper
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Domain Adaptation of Automatic Speech Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• GhanaNLP Parallel Corpora: Comprehensive Multilingual Resources for Low-Resource Ghanaian Languages
• NLP for Ghanaian Languages
• Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions
• How much speech data is necessary for ASR in African languages? An evaluation of data scaling in Kinyarwanda and Kikuyu
• wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• Robust wav2vec 2.0: Analyzing Domain Shift in Self-Supervised Pre-Training
• W2v-BERT: Combining Contrastive Learning and Masked Language Modeling for Self-Supervised Speech Pre-Training
• Adaptability of ASR Models on Low-Resource Language: A Comparative Study of Whisper and Wav2Vec-BERT on Bangla

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