Speech Resources in the Tamasheq Language
Marcely Zanon Boito, Fethi Bougares, Florentin Barbier, Souhir Gahbiche, Loïc Barrault, Mickaël Rouvier, Yannick Estève · 2022
In this paper we present two datasets for Tamasheq, a developing language mainly spoken in Mali and Niger.These two datasets were made available for the IWSLT 2022 low-resource speech translation track, and they consist of collections of radio recordings from daily broadcast news in Niger (Studio Kalangou) and Mali (Studio Tamani).We share (i) a massive amount of unlabeled audio data (671 hours) in five languages: French from Niger, Fulfulde, Hausa, Tamasheq and Zarma, and (ii) a smaller 17 hours parallel corpus of audio recordings in Tamasheq, with utterance-level translations in the French language.All this data is shared under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.We hope these resources will inspire the speech community to develop and benchmark models using the Tamasheq language.