ICT4D has increasingly adopted participation and community involvement to address power
imbalances, namely through the figure of the" local". However, this reliance makes …

We report on community-centered, collaborative research that weaves together HCI, natural
language processing, linguistic, and design insights to develop spoken language …

In this thesis, I situate the impacts of automatic speech recognition systems in relation to
sociolinguistic theory (in particular drawing on concepts of language variation, language …

In this paper we illustrate the gap between real language use and the language use
assumed in ASR development through the example of isiXhosa in Langa, South Africa …

In this paper and interactive exhibit we demonstrate a portfolio of systems and approaches
that progressively vary on the theme of co-creating and situating spoken-language …

Language models, specifically those based on neural network architectures, have become
an attractive alternative to classical statistical language models for natural language …