Quechua

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Results of the SIMBig 2026 Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Indigenous Languages

The results of the SIMBig 2026 shared task on speech recognition and language resources for Indigenous languages of South America, announced in Arequipa on 30 October 2026, and …

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Elwin Huaman
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Featured by CHIA: Helping Quechua Communities Shape Their Future with AI

CHIA's Meet the Researcher series features my work with Quechua communities in Puno, Peru, on community-led speech data, speech-first language technology and what comes next.

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Elwin Huaman
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Speech Recognition for Indigenous Languages: The SIMBig 2026 Shared Task

Why we organised a shared task on speech recognition and language resources for Indigenous languages of South America, what we asked teams to build, and what happens next at SIMBig …

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Elwin Huaman
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Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua

We present the largest speech corpus for a single Quechua variety, collected with the community, and the first ASR benchmark for Puno Quechua.

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Elwin Huaman
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Creating Small ASR Models For Low-resource Languages From Similar Languages: The Cases Of Betawi and Puno Quechua

We build small ASR models for Betawi and Puno Quechua by transferring from closely related languages.

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Moderator | Quechua Teaching in Higher Education

This conference will contribute to the research, teaching, learning, dissemination, maintenance, revitalization, and promotion of Quechua languages ​​and cultures worldwide.

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Elwin Huaman
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Quechua Speech Datasets in Common Voice: The Case of Puno Quechua

We detail the integration of the Quechua language family into Common Voice, an open-source initiative to build diverse speech datasets.

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Elwin Huaman
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QuechuaBase.org

Recording Puno Quechua voices across generations and making audio recordings available to all on Mozilla Common Voice to support language preservation, education, and research.

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Elwin Huaman
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Invited Speaker: Decolonizing Technology: Empowering indigenous communities

The Kuyayky START Labs (KSTART) Conference initiative was launched in late 2022, with its kickoff event taking place in January 2023 in the Andean city of Jauja, Peru. In 2025, the …

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Elwin Huaman
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Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language

We bring the Quechua language into Wikidata. We outline a technical pipeline for data curation and deployment, transforming Quechua linguistic resources into structured, …

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Elwin Huaman
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