2024/07/02 by John E. Ortega, Ortega, John E., Ibrahim Said Ahmad +3
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Cinema and Media Studies #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Sound (cs.SD) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.02631
openalex publication_date 2024/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Nollywood, based on the idea of Bollywood from India, is a series of outstanding movies that originate from Nigeria. Unfortunately, while the movies are in English, they are hard to understand for many native speakers due to the dialect of English that is spoken. In this article, we accomplish two goals: (1) create a phonetic sub-title model that is able to translate Nigerian English speech to American English and (2) use the most advanced toxicity detectors to discover how toxic the speech is. Our aim is to highlight the text in these videos which is often times ignored for lack of dialectal understanding due the fact that many people in Nigeria speak a native language like Hausa at home.