Nollywood: Let's Go to the Movies!
This addresses accessibility and content moderation for Nollywood viewers, but appears incremental as it applies existing methods to a new dataset.
The researchers tackled the problem of Nigerian English dialect comprehension in Nollywood films by creating a phonetic subtitle model to translate to American English and analyzing speech toxicity with advanced detectors, though no concrete performance numbers were provided.
Nollywood, based on the idea of Bollywood from India, is a series of outstanding movies that originate from Nigeria. Unfortunately, while the movies are in English, they are hard to understand for many native speakers due to the dialect of English that is spoken. In this article, we accomplish two goals: (1) create a phonetic sub-title model that is able to translate Nigerian English speech to American English and (2) use the most advanced toxicity detectors to discover how toxic the speech is. Our aim is to highlight the text in these videos which is often times ignored for lack of dialectal understanding due the fact that many people in Nigeria speak a native language like Hausa at home.