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.
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@article{arxiv.2201.05051,
title = {Speech Resources in the Tamasheq Language},
author = {Marcely Zanon Boito and Fethi Bougares and Florentin Barbier and Souhir Gahbiche and Loïc Barrault and Mickael Rouvier and Yannick Estève},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05051},
year = {2022}
}