RoDia: A New Dataset for Romanian Dialect Identification from Speech
Rotaru Codruț, Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea, Radu Tudor Ionescu · 2024
We introduce RoDia, the first dataset for Romanian dialect identification from speech.The RoDia dataset includes a varied compilation of speech samples from five distinct regions of Romania, covering both urban and rural environments, totaling 2 hours of manually annotated speech data.Along with our dataset, we introduce a set of competitive models to be used as baselines for future research.The top scoring model achieves a macro F 1 score of 59.83% and a micro F 1 score of 62.08%, indicating that the task is challenging.We thus believe that RoDia is a valuable resource that will stimulate research aiming to address the challenges of Romanian dialect identification.We release our dataset at https: //github.com/codrut2/RoDia.