Busayo Awobade

AfriSwitch: A Benchmark for In-the-Wild African Code-Switched Speech Recognition

Code-switching is pervasive in bilingual African conversation, yet most ASR systems assume monolingual input and are evaluated on curated monolingual benchmarks. We present AfriSwitch, a 61.36-hour human-transcribed benchmark of in-the-wild code-switched speech spanning 16 African languages and language varieties, rele...