\`{I}r\`{o}y\`{i}nSpeech: A multi-purpose Yor\`{u}b\'{a} Speech Corpus

arXiv:2307.16071v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce \`{I}r\`{o}y\`{i}nSpeech, a new corpus influenced by the desire to increase the amount of high quality, contemporary Yor\`{u}b\'{a} speech data, which can be used for both Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks. We curated about 23000 text sentences from news and creative writing domains with the open license CC-BY-4.0. To encourage a participatory approach to data creation, we provide 5000 curated sentences to the Mozilla Common Voice platform to crowd-source the recording …

abstract arxiv asr automatic speech recognition creative cs.cl cs.sd data domains eess.as quality recognition speech speech recognition tasks text text-to-speech tts type writing