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The lead story·ResearchFebruary 18, 2026·1 min readYodiV3: NLP for Togolese Languages with the Eyaa-Tom Dataset and the Lom MetricPresents Eyaa-Tom, a multi-domain parallel corpus for ten Togolese languages and two lingua francas, and introduces the Lom metric to quantify each language's AI readiness.Read more

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ResearchJuly 1, 20251 min read

Eyaa-Tom: “Words of the people” in Kabiyè

A corpus collected in the field by a community of linguists and native annotators, designed to cover real domains: health, administration, everyday conversation.

By Community of linguists, researchers and Umbaji annotators

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ResearchMarch 14, 20231 min read

Yodi: The Speech Recognition System for Ewè

Describes the architecture of the first speech recognition system for Ewè, built on word-to-waveform mapping and convolutional neural network classifiers.

By Umbaji research team

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