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AfroDigits: A Community-Driven Spoken Digit Dataset for African Languages
Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sanchit Gandhi, Lewis Tunstall +10
The advancement of speech technologies has been remarkable, yet its integration with African languages remains limited due to the scarcity of African speech corpora. To address thi…
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
Josh Meyer, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Edresson Casanova +16
BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single sp…
The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus: A Luganda Radio Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition
Jonathan Mukiibi, Andrew Katumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende +2
Building a usable radio monitoring automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a challenging task for under-resourced languages and yet this is paramount in societies where radio…
What shall we do with an hour of data? Speech recognition for the un- and under-served languages of Common Voice
Francis M. Tyers, Josh Meyer
This technical report describes the methods and results of a three-week sprint to produce deployable speech recognition models for 31 under-served languages of the Common Voice pro…
Few-Shot Keyword Spotting in Any Language
Mark Mazumder, Colby Banbury, Josh Meyer +2
We introduce a few-shot transfer learning method for keyword spotting in any language. Leveraging open speech corpora in nine languages, we automate the extraction of a large multi…
Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
Rosana Ardila, Megan Branson, Kelly Davis +7
The Common Voice corpus is a massively-multilingual collection of transcribed speech intended for speech technology research and development. Common Voice is designed for Automatic…