About Yorlect

Yorlect is a cutting-edge research lab dedicated to advancing the fields of speech technology, natural language processing and machine learning for all Yoruba Dialects. Our objective is to give digital footprint to all dialectal forms of Yoruba language giving them the opportunity to compete in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Who We Are

We are a community of linguists, computer scientists and researchers with passion to preserve and advance Yoruba dialectal forms in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our team brings expertise from linguistics and computer science to collaborate and create high-quality datasets and tools for the Yoruba dialects.

What We Do

We curate and maintain high quality open-source linguistic datasets for speech recognition, natural language processing and machine translation. Our datasets are hosted on GitHub, making them accessible to researchers and developers worldwide.

Our Values

• Open Access: All our datasets are freely available to researchers and developers
• Quality: We maintain rigorous standards for data collection and annotation
• Community: We believe in collaborative research and knowledge sharing
• Cultural Preservation: We are committed to preserving and promoting Yoruba language and culture