Elevate Black Voices

A large-scale data collection of African American English to build an inclusive audio dataset to improve automatic speech recognition systems.

Project Website: https://www.elevateblackvoiceshu.com/

Press Articles: 

The Dig

Forbes

Washingtonian

WTOP

 

powerpoint lside explaining what automatic speech recognition system is
powerpoint describing Howard University HCAI Institute collecting 600 hours of african american english audio

Lucretia Williams, PhD