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Connecting Voices: LoReSpeech as a Low-Resource Speech Parallel Corpus

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  • LoReSpeech is introduced as a low-resource speech-to-speech translation corpus aimed at underrepresented languages to address scarcity in aligned audio corpora crucial for ASR and speech translation technologies.
  • The methodology starts with LoReASR, a sub-corpus of short audio clips aligned with transcriptions via a collaborative platform, which serves as the foundation for building LoReSpeech.
  • Long-form audio recordings, such as biblical texts, are aligned using tools like the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) to produce both intra- and inter-language alignments.
  • LoReSpeech aims to advance multilingual ASR systems, facilitate direct speech-to-speech translation models, contribute to linguistic preservation, and promote digital inclusivity.
  • The corpus creation is part of the Tutlayt AI project, which focuses on leveraging AI for supporting low-resource languages.

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arXiv:2502.18215 (cs)
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[Submitted on 25 Feb 2025 (v1), last revised 10 Mar 2026 (this version, v2)]

Title:Connecting Voices: LoReSpeech as a Low-Resource Speech Parallel Corpus

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Abstract:Aligned audio corpora are fundamental to NLP technologies such as ASR and speech translation, yet they remain scarce for underrepresented languages, hindering their technological integration. This paper introduces a methodology for constructing LoReSpeech, a low-resource speech-to-speech translation corpus. Our approach begins with LoReASR, a sub-corpus of short audios aligned with their transcriptions, created through a collaborative platform. Building on LoReASR, long-form audio recordings, such as biblical texts, are aligned using tools like the MFA. LoReSpeech delivers both intra- and inter-language alignments, enabling advancements in multilingual ASR systems, direct speech-to-speech translation models, and linguistic preservation efforts, while fostering digital inclusivity. This work is conducted within Tutlayt AI project (this https URL).
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Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2502.18215 [cs.CL]
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  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.18215
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From: Samy Ouzerrout [view email]
[v1] Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:00:15 UTC (92 KB)
[v2] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:27:01 UTC (1 KB) (withdrawn)
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