Developing the First Automatic Voicebot in Wolof Language: A Proof-of-Concept

This paper presents the proof-of-concept of the first automatic voice assistant ever built in the Wolof language, the main vehicular language spoken in Senegal. The voicebot is the result of a collaborative research project between Orange Innovation in France, Orange Senegal, and ADNCorp, a small IT company based in Dakar, Senegal.