Snow Mountain: Dataset of Audio Recordings of The Bible in Low Resource Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01205v2
• Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 05:58:35 GMT
• Title: Snow Mountain: Dataset of Audio Recordings of The Bible in Low Resource Languages
• Authors: Kavitha Raju, Anjaly V, Ryan Lish, Joel Mathew
• Abstract summary: We release an open-licensed and formatted dataset of audio recordings of the Bible in low-resource northern Indian languages. We setup multiple experimental splits and train and analyze two competitive ASR models to serve as the baseline for future research using this data.
• Score: 0.6193838300896449
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has increasing utility in the modern world. There are a many ASR models available for languages with large amounts of training data like English. However, low-resource languages are poorly represented. In response we create and release an open-licensed and formatted dataset of audio recordings of the Bible in low-resource northern Indian languages. We setup multiple experimental splits and train and analyze two competitive ASR models to serve as the baseline for future research using this data.

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