What is Krio? A technical guide to Sierra Leone's language
Origins, orthography, phonology and why Krio behaves the way it does for speech and language models.
Blog
Writing on language AI, local voices, and practical product design.
Insights from the NovaxAILab work on Krio, speech technology, and building tools that are useful beyond the lab.
Planned articles
Building speech recognition for Krio
Data collection, preprocessing, fine-tuning and evaluation for a low-resource African language.
Why African languages need better speech data
The data gap behind the model gap, and what closing it actually takes.
The research write-ups and news cover the current work in more depth.