Publications
A collection of my academic publications, conference papers, and research contributions.
Afrispeech-Dialog: A Benchmark Dataset for Spontaneous English Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
Mardhiyah Sanni, Tassallah Abdullahi, Devendra D. Kayande, Emmanuel Ayodele, Naome A. Etori, Michael S. Mollel, Moshood Yekini, Chibuzor Okocha, Lukman E. Ismaila, Folafunmi Omofoye, Boluwatife A. Adewale, Tobi Olatunji
Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) (2025)
Probing Multilingual and Accent robustness of Speech LLMs
Anonymous
Interspeech (2025)
We lost 2 decades: a large-scale multi-country study on healthcare documentation speeds in LMICs
Tobi Olatunji, Chinemelu Aka, Tassallah Abdullahi, Chibuzor Okocha, Naome A. Etori, Gloria A. Katuka, and Lukman E. Ismaila
ACM CHI Workshop on Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health (2025)
How Robust Are Neural Audio Codecs for African Speech? A Multi-Task Benchmark and the Limits of Perceptual Quality
Chibuzor Okocha and Christan Earl Grant
2026 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) (2026)
Can large audio language models understand child stuttering speech? speech summarization, and source separation
Chibuzor Okocha, Maya Bakri, Christan Grant
ICASSP (2026)
Domain-Aware Speaker Diarization On African-Accented English
Chibuzor Okocha, Kelechi Ezema, Christan Grant
arXiv preprint (2025)
Beyond Word Error Rate: A Switch-Aware Evaluation of ASR and Audio Language Models on English–Yoruba Code-Switched Speech
Chibuzor Okocha and Christan Earl Grant
2026 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) (2026)
Reasoning Beyond Transcription: Audio Language Models on Child Stuttering Speech
Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant, Zoey Liu
Interspeech (2026)