papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
BaltiVoice: 16.8-hour speech corpus and fine-tuned Whisper ASR system for Balti
Researchers have released BaltiVoice, a 16.8-hour read-speech corpus with 10,060 validated utterances for Balti, a Tibetic language spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The language previously had no publicly available speech recognition resources, making this the first open dataset and ASR model for Balti. The team fine-tuned OpenAI's Whisper architecture on the corpus to enable automatic speech recognition for the language.