DONDO : Open w2v-BERT Speech-Recognition Base Models for African Languages Democratizing Oral Neural Dialect Ontology
We present DONDO, a family of open, permissively licensed automatic speech recognition (ASR) base models for African languages, built on the w2v-BERT 2.0 self-supervised speech encoder. DONDO comprises twenty-one monolingual models and five multilingual models spanning twenty-seven language varieties across Ghana, Sier...