Recent Highlights

• AfriVox: Probing Multilingual and Accent Robustness of Speech LLMs was accepted at EACL 2026.
• AfriSpeech-MultiBench: A Verticalized Multidomain Multicountry Benchmark Suite for African Accented English ASR was accepted at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Conference.
• The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages was accepted at INTERSPEECH 2025.
• We are organizing a fundraiser for 25 African students to attend Deep Learning Indaba. Donate here. (August 2023)
• What Happens When Small Is Made Smaller? Exploring the Impact of Compression on Small Data Pretrained Language Models was accepted at AfricaNLP 2024.
• We are organizing a fundraiser for 21 African students to attend Deep Learning Indaba. Donate here. (August 2023)
• I have fulfilled all requirments for my BSc in Computer Science program at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta. I am now a BSc graduate! (Mar 2023)
• We have finally fulfilled the terms of our grant from the Algorand Foundation, and our project, ASAlytics (now Nazari) , is finally ready for UAT. (Oct 2022)
• Ernest talked on our project, ASAlytics (now Nazari), at DataFest Africa 2022 and on how folks can contribute to our open-source model. See slides here. (Oct 2022)
• I am organizing an ML Collective's family & friends dinner at Deep Learning Indaba. Come join us if you are in Tunisia and you've heard of MLC before! (Aug 2022)
• ML Collective is organizing a fundraiser for 9 young African researchers to attend Deep Learning Indaba. Donate here. (July 2022)
• I will attend this year's Deep Learning Indaba. (July 2022)