EMNLP 2025 · Suzhou, China

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Mapping Africa’s Speech Technology

SimbaBench bridges the digital divide with a unified suite for African AI: the largest open-source speech benchmark covering 61 languages.



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If you use the Simba benchmark, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-voice, title = "Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica{'}s Speech Technology Frontier", author = "Elmadany, AbdelRahim A. and Kwon, Sang Yun and Toyin, Hawau Olamide and Alcoba Inciarte, Alcides and Aldarmaki, Hanan and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.559", pages = "11039--11061", ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6", }