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Research, written
from Africa.

Peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, and dataset releases from TRI AI's research initiatives.

October 16, 2025 TRI AI author ACM

The Human Labour of Data Work: Capturing Cultural Diversity through World Wide Dishes

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall, Samantha Dalal, Raesetje Sefala, Foutse Yuehgoh, Aisha Alaagib et al.
June 21, 2025 TRI AI author

The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation

Jabez Magomere, Shu Ishida, Tejumade Afonja, Aya Salama, Daniel Kochin et al.
June 27, 2024 TRI AI author arXiv

1000 African Voices: Advancing inclusive multi-speaker multi-accent speech synthesis

Sewade Ogun, Abraham T. Owodunni, Tobi Olatunji, Eniola Alese, Babatunde Oladimeji et al.
June 18, 2024 TRI AI author arXiv

Performant ASR Models for Medical Entities in Accented Speech

Tejumade Afonja, Tobi Olatunji, Sewade Ogun, Naome A Etori, Abraham Owodunni et al.
December 19, 2023 TRI AI author Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR

Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sahib Singh et al.
June 2, 2023 TRI AI author arXiv

AfriNames: Most ASR models “butcher” African Names

Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue et al.
July 16, 2021 TRI AI initiative

A survey: Robot grasping

Kenechi F Dukor, T Afonja