Abstract: Background: The usefulness of climate science information is substantially diminished when it reaches end users in languages or formats outside their familiarity. This paper presents Sahel Climate Voice, an Android mobile application combining domain-specific lexical resources, neural machine translation, text-to-speech synthesis, cloud-based inference, and mobile deployment to serve speakers of Bambara, Hausa, and Mooré. Materials and Methods: The lexical foundation of the system is BUMANI_CIC (Climate Information Corpus), whose initial release consolidated....
Key Word: climate information services; low-resource NLP; Bambara; Hausa; Mooré; neural machine translation; text-to-speech.
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