CoVoST 2 Tamil - English

Description

This dataset contains 2531 audio clips totalling 02:43:11 of audio in Tamil with the corresponding translations in English.

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_ta_19171502.mp3	கதிபெற வேண்டும் என்றே	To attain a position	08873df09db28dba7fd3af140ad6b1dee02f59c8af8f066859662d8d9b61790882a3a987c648b0f54181481beaf3c098c29691cbc34d94e438e0efa8a2493a7d
common_voice_ta_19171503.mp3	தாரணி என்றவண்ணம்	by calling Dhaarani	08873df09db28dba7fd3af140ad6b1dee02f59c8af8f066859662d8d9b61790882a3a987c648b0f54181481beaf3c098c29691cbc34d94e438e0efa8a2493a7d
common_voice_ta_19171504.mp3	நெஞ்சகனை, நல்யாழின் நரம்புதனைத் தடவி	He with such a heart, annointed the thread of Yazh	08873df09db28dba7fd3af140ad6b1dee02f59c8af8f066859662d8d9b61790882a3a987c648b0f54181481beaf3c098c29691cbc34d94e438e0efa8a2493a7d
common_voice_ta_19171505.mp3	அது ஒரு விஷயமே இல்லை	It is not a thing at all.	08873df09db28dba7fd3af140ad6b1dee02f59c8af8f066859662d8d9b61790882a3a987c648b0f54181481beaf3c098c29691cbc34d94e438e0efa8a2493a7d

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}
}