Automatic Speech Recognition for the Basa` a Language: A Low-Resource Approach

arXiv:2609.32408 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Transformer — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition — 5× in this paper
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Loss Function — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Natural Language Processing — 3× in this paper
• Self-Supervised Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence — 2× in this paper
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Character Error Rate — 1× in this paper
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Word Error Rate — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead
• Tone prediction and orthographic conversion for Basaa
• XLS-R: Self-supervised Cross-lingual Speech Representation Learning at Scale
• Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning for Speech Recognition

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