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Volume 314: AI for African Languages Conference, 10 October 2025, Kampala, Uganda

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Editors: Engineer Bainomugisha, Ernest Mwebaze, Richard Kimera, Joyce Nakatumba Nabende, Andrew Katumba, John Quinn

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Contents:

Preface

Preface

Engineer Bainomugisha, Ernest Mwebaze, Richard Kimera, Joyce Nakatumba Nabende, Andrew Katumba, John Quinn; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:i-iv

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Invited Papers

Sunflower: A New Approach to Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models

Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Gilbert Yiga, Patrick Walukagga, Phionah Natukunda, Trevor Saaka, Solomon Nsumba, Lilian Teddy Nabukeera, Joel Tibabwetiza Muhanguzi, Imran Sekalala, Nimpamya Janat Namara, Engineer Bainomugisha, Ernest Mwebaze, John Quinn; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:1-20

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Contributed Papers

Sauti Halisi: Towards Direct Speech-to-Text Translation for Colloquial and Code-Switched Swahili

Gill O’Brian; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:21-26

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Promoting Uganda’s Major Local Languages: Introducing Luganda Text Generation Models and Diverse Accent-Aware TTS Models

Rashid Kisejjere, Reuben Magala, Abubakhari Sserwadda; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:27-32

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Tonative: Community-Driven Extension of African Datasets Through Human-AI Collaboration

Cynthia Jayne Amol, Sharon Ibejih; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:33-36

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Bridging the Language Gap: Fine-Tuning Llama for Machine Translation in Low-Resource African Languages

Mary Wambui Kariuki, Joseph Muguro, Ciira wa Maina, Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:37-40

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How Much Speech Data is Necessary for ASR in African Languages? An Evaluation of Data Scaling in Kinyarwanda and Kikuyu

Benjamin Akera, Patrick Walukagga, Gilbert Yiga, John Quinn, Ernest Mwebaze; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:41-49

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Robust Tokenization for Low-Resource Oromo Medical Texts via Novel Lightweight Augmentation

Karthik Srikumar; Proceedings of the AI for African Languages Conference 2025, PMLR 314:50-55

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