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Nollywood: Let’s Go to the Movies!
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: Received: 13 February 2024 / Approved: 15 February 2024 / Online: 15 February 2024 (12:21:40 CET)
How to cite: Ortega, J.E.; Chen, W.; Ahmad, I.S. Nollywood: Let’s Go to the Movies!. Preprints 2024, 2024020845. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0845.v1 Ortega, J.E.; Chen, W.; Ahmad, I.S. Nollywood: Let’s Go to the Movies!. Preprints 2024, 2024020845. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0845.v1
Abstract
Nollywood, based on the idea of Bollywood from India, is a series of outstanding movies that originate from Nigeria. Unfortunately, while the movies are in English, they are hard to understand for many native speakers due to the dialect of English that is spoken. In this article, we accomplish two goals: (1) create a phonetic sub-title model that is able to translate Nigerian English speech to American English and (2) use the most advanced toxicity detectors to discover how toxic the speech is. Our aim is to highlight the text in these videos which is often times ignored for lack of dialectal understanding due the fact that many people in Nigeria speak a native language like Hausa at home.
Keywords
Natural Language Processing; Automatic Speech Recognition; Machine Translation; Nigeria; English; United States; Movies; machine learning
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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