zindi-ai4d-wolof
Wolof ASR Zindi competition solution
Official site consultedAI: models
Last verified: 1 October 2026
4th-place solution to Zindi's low-resource Wolof speech recognition competition, which aims to enable public transport navigation without French literacy. It fine-tunes wav2vec2-xlsr, with decoding by an n-gram language model and nearest-neighbour search. Apache 2.0 license.
Services
- Preprocessing, training and prediction scripts
- run.sh script producing submission.csv
Access requirements
Open code (Apache 2.0); requires the competition data in /data and a high-RAM environment, about 6 hours runtime.
Sources
- zindi-ai4d-wolof (new tab), verified on 1 October 2026Official site consulted