Research

At HayuLabs, we turn research into product.

We conduct cutting-edge research in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning for African languages, with a special focus on under-resourced languages.

Our researchers come from top institutions in the world including Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, bringing world-class expertise to solve challenges in African language technology.

Publications

Sagalee: an Open Source Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Oromo Language

Turi Abu, and et al

2025
ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

This work presents Sagalee, the first open-source automatic speech recognition dataset for the Oromo language.

More research publications coming soon...