Part 2 of our series on HARMLET, our healthcare speech-AI collaboration with Aarhus University. [Part 1] “Mewɔ headache na me body temperature wɔ soro.” Twi supplies the grammar; English supplies the medical vocabulary. Linguists call this code-switching, and in Ghanaian clinical conversation it is not an occasional lapse but the ordinary register — medical terms […]
“Me ti yɛ me ya ɛna me temperature nso ɛyɛ high.” Sentences like this — Twi carrying the grammar, English carrying the medical vocabulary — are how clinical conversations actually sound across much of Ghana. They are also what contemporary speech recognition handles worst. HARMLET, a research collaboration between Aarhus University and Releev AI, exists […]