When Endangered Voices Speak: Building the First Ehugbo Dialect Audio Dataset Through Grassroots Collaboration

UKACHI AGNES EZE-MBEY, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Uloma Calista Eze-Mbey

Published: 22 Sept 2025, Last Modified: 03 Jan 2026WiML @ NeurIPS 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: Endangered Languages, LowResource Speech Recognition, Grassroots AI, Ethical Datasets, Ehugbo Dialect, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Digital Inclusion, Low Resource Language, African Languages, Igbo Language, African NLP
Submission Number: 235