CoVoST 2 English - Arabic

Description

This dataset contains 320495 audio clips totalling 436:04:23 of audio in English with the corresponding translations in Arabic.

Background

End-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) has recently witnessed an increased interest given its system simplicity, lower inference latency and less compounding errors compared to cascaded ST (i.e. speech recognition + machine translation). End-to-end ST model training, however, is often hampered by the lack of parallel data. Thus, we created CoVoST, a large-scale multilingual ST corpus based on Common Voice, to foster ST research with the largest ever open dataset. Its latest version covers translations from English into 15 languages---Arabic, Catalan, Welsh, German, Estonian, Persian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian, Mongolian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Chinese---and from 21 languages into English, including the 15 target languages as well as Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian. It has total 2,880 hours of speech and is diversified with 78K speakers.

Fields

• path: Filename of the audio file

• sentence: The sentence in the source language

• translation: The sentence in the target language

• client_id: The ID of the speaker of the source language, used for maintaining hygiene in the splits.

Example

path	sentence	translation	client_id
common_voice_en_19664034.mp3	"These data components in turn serve as the ""building blocks"" of data exchanges."	تمثل عناصر البيانات هذه في المقابل "العناصر الأساسية" لتبادل البيانات.	4f29be8fe932d773576dd3df5e111929f4e222422322450983695eaa8625a12659cd3e999a061a29ebe71783833bebdc2d0ec6b97e9a648bf6d28979065f85ad
common_voice_en_19664035.mp3	The church is unrelated to the Jewish political movement of Zionism.	الكنيسة ليست على صلة بحركة الصهيونية اليهودية السياسية.	4f29be8fe932d773576dd3df5e111929f4e222422322450983695eaa8625a12659cd3e999a061a29ebe71783833bebdc2d0ec6b97e9a648bf6d28979065f85ad
common_voice_en_19664037.mp3	The following represents architectures which have been utilized at one point or another.	يمثل الآتي الهياكل التي تم استخدامها في مرحلة أو أخرى.	4f29be8fe932d773576dd3df5e111929f4e222422322450983695eaa8625a12659cd3e999a061a29ebe71783833bebdc2d0ec6b97e9a648bf6d28979065f85ad
common_voice_en_19664038.mp3	Additionally, the pulse output can be directed through one of three resonator banks.	علاوة على أن خرج النبض يمكن توجيهه عبر مصارف الرنان.	4f29be8fe932d773576dd3df5e111929f4e222422322450983695eaa8625a12659cd3e999a061a29ebe71783833bebdc2d0ec6b97e9a648bf6d28979065f85ad

Splits

Citation

If you use this dataset in your work please cite

@misc{wang2020covost,
    title={CoVoST 2: A Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation Corpus},
    author={Changhan Wang and Anne Wu and Juan Pino},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2007.10310},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}