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Jun 4, 2024 2 papers on TTS and STT got accetped to Interspeech 2024! Find them here [1, 2].
Jan 18, 2024 Our papers AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents got accetped to EACL Finding 2024!
Jan 18, 2024 Our papers AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents got accetped to EACL Finding 2024!
Nov 25, 2023 I gave a talk at DevFest Abuja titled “Growing AI Talents with Open Science Communities”. Slides
Nov 23, 2023 I got selected for the Diversity and Inclusion Award for EMNLP award 2023
Oct 29, 2023 We started MLC-NG - an African subsection of ML Collective, inquire about to the email abraham.owodunni@mlcollective.org. Also read about our activities here.
Oct 7, 2023 2 of our papers got accepted to EMNLP 2023 :sparkles, 1 got rejected! Find them here [1, 2].
Sep 15, 2023 I was invited to talk on reading research papers for undergraduate researchers at One HealthTech Slides.
Sep 8, 2023 We organised the Data Science and Health Workshop at DLI 2023. workshop website
Sep 8, 2023 We organised the Machine Learning for Health Workshop at DLI 2023. workshop website
Aug 20, 2023 I’ll be resuming as a Ph.D. Student at the Ohio State University
May 5, 2023 I gave a spotlight talk of my Koya paper at the AfricaNLP ICLR 2023 Workshop
May 5, 2023 Organised the Machine Learning & Global Health Workshop at ICLR 2023. workshop website
Apr 1, 2023 I started doing applied research on accented speech at IntronHealth
Mar 3, 2023 My First first author paper and another collaboration got accepted to AfricaNLP at ICLR 2023
Feb 16, 2023 I taught a masterclass on automatic speech recognition a competition organised by Nvidia, HuggingFace, DSN, IntronHealth and other partners. Read DSN’s post here
Oct 28, 2022 I got selected for the Diversity and Inclusion Award for EMNLP award 2022
Oct 6, 2022 Our paper “Bloom Library: Multimodal Datasets in 300+ Languages for a Variety of Downstream Tasks” got accepted to EMNLP 2022