Learning Nigerian accent embeddings from speech: preliminary results based on SautiDB-Naija corpus

no code implementations • 12 Dec 2021 • Tejumade Afonja, Oladimeji Mudele, Iroro Orife, Kenechi Dukor, Lawrence Francis, Duru Goodness, Oluwafemi Azeez, Ademola Malomo, Clinton Mbataku

We describe how the corpus was created and curated as well as preliminary experiments with accent classification and learning Nigerian accent embeddings.

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