From a Multilingual Streaming ASR Backbone to Kenyan-Language Systems: Data-Centric Adaptation of Nemotron 3.5 for Kikuyu, Dholuo, and Kalenjin
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR 0.6B was adapted for Kikuyu, Dholuo, and Kalenjin languages, demonstrating data-centric methods for low-resource ASR.