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Monsoon: Scalable Spontaneous Speech Collection for Low-Resource ASR in 50 Languages
Oct 19, 2026Shobhit Banga, Manas Dhir, Aaditya Pareek +8Speech Corpus Construction Low-Resource Speech Recognition
Voice Arena
The ÌròyìnSpeech Text Corpus: 24,905 Curated Yorùbá Sentences for Speech and Language Technology
Oct 4, 2026Kola Tubosun, Aanuoluwapo Aremu, Tolulope Ogunremi +2Low-Resource Language Processing Speech Corpus Construction
Stanford University · Niger-Volta LTI · Mila / McGill University
AraYoungVoices: A Diverse L1/L2 Corpus of Arabic Child and Adolescent Speech
Oct 4, 2026Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Zien Sheikh Ali, Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat +1Child Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Balalaika-Longform: A Russian Speech Corpus for Continuous Long-Form Text-to-Speech
Sep 30, 2026Nikita Vasiliev, Kirill Borodin, Vasilii Kudryavtsev +2TTS Synthesis TTS Evaluation
BitmanagerAI, Dubai, UAE · lab260, Yerevan, Armenia · MTUCI, Moscow, Russia
BanglaKontho: Closing the Long-Form Gap in Bangla Text-to-Speech
Sep 24, 2026Mizbaul Haque MarufTTS Synthesis Low-Resource TTS Synthesis
Vivasoft Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Structure Before Sampling: Community-Aware Core-Set Selection for Data-Efficient Text-to-Speech
Sep 21, 2026Mizbaul Haque Maruf, Muhammad Nur YanhaonaTTS Synthesis Coreset Selection
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Spoken Wikipedia Presentation Corpus
Sep 18, 2026Thomas Ranzenberger, Steffen Freisinger, Tobias Bocklet +1Speech Corpus Construction Automatic Speech Recognition
Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Nürnberg, Germany
A Speech Corpus for Mizo Automatic Speech Recognition: Whisper and SraVaani 1.0 Fine-Tuning with Morphology-Aware Evaluation
Aug 19, 2026Priyankoo Sarmah, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, LalhmingmawiaSpeech Corpus Construction Automatic Speech Recognition
Center for Linguistic Science and Technology Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
myMediWhisper: Construction of Burmese Medical Speech Corpus and Whisper Fine-Tuning for Clinical Dialogue ASR
Aug 11, 2026Ye Kyaw Thu, Ye Bhone Lin, Thura Aung +6Speech Processing Automatic Speech Recognition
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand · Language Understanding Laboratory, Myanmar · King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand +1
A large-scale corpus of religious radio broadcast transcripts from webstream recordings in the United States
Jul 28, 2026Samuel Bestvater, Athena Chapekis, Skyler Seets +3Speech Corpus Construction
1Pew Research Center, Washington DC, USA
DuplexChat: Constructing Speaker-Separated Full-Duplex Dialogue Speech at Scale for Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling
Jul 6, 2026Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Hiroshi SaruwatariSpeech Processing Language Modeling
The University of Tokyo, Japan · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
LuxEmo: Expressive Text-to-Speech Corpus for Luxembourgish
Jun 30, 2026Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Sandipana DowerahSpeech Processing Low-Resource TTS Synthesis
Radio T´el´evisioun L¨etzebuerg (RTL) & University of Luxembourg · Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg · Tallinn University of Technology +1
TMASC: Transmasculine Attitude and Speech Corpus
Jun 15, 2026Sidney WongSpeech Processing Speech Corpus Construction
Centre for Sustainability Research, University of Otago, New Zealand · Te P¯unaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems, New Zealand
BaltiVoice: A Speech Corpus and Fine-tuned Whisper ASR System for the Balti Language
Jun 2, 2026Muhammad AliAutomatic Speech Recognition Low-Resource Language Processing
Independent AI/ML Researcher Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan · Alumnus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB)
Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua
May 27, 2026Elwin Huaman, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Johanna Cordova +1Speech Recognition Benchmarks Automatic Speech Recognition
University of Cambridge (UK) · Stanford University (USA) · ERTIM - Inalco (France)
WorldSpeech: A Multilingual Speech Corpus from Around the World
May 9, 2026Antonis Asonitis, Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Frédéric Berdoz +1Automatic Speech Recognition Low-Resource Speech Recognition
ETH Zurich
Saar-Voice: A Multi-Speaker Saarbrücken Dialect Speech Corpus
Apr 13, 2026Lena S. Oberkircher, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Dietrich Klakow +1Speech Corpus Construction Speech Processing
Language Science and Technology (LST), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Pashto Common Voice: Building the First Open Speech Corpus for a 60-Million-Speaker Low-Resource Language
Mar 27, 2026Hanif Rahman, Shafeeq ur RehmanSpeech Corpus Construction Low-Resource Language Processing
Pashto DAO
Is Semi-Automatic Transcription Useful in Corpus Creation? Preliminary Considerations on the KIParla Corpus
Mar 17, 2026Martina Simonotti, Ludovica Pannitto, Eleonora Zucchini +2Speech Corpus Construction Automatic Speech Recognition
University of Bologna, Bologna - Italy · Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic
Ramsa: A Large Sociolinguistically Rich Emirati Arabic Speech Corpus for ASR and TTS
Mar 9, 2026Rania Al-SabbaghSpeech Corpus Construction Arabic NLP
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Sharjah, UAE
VietSuperSpeech: A Large-Scale Vietnamese Conversational Speech Dataset for ASR Fine-Tuning in Chatbot, Customer Support, and Call Center Applications
Mar 2, 2026Loan Do, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, Thanh Pham +3Conversational Speech Recognition Speech Corpus Construction
FPT University · Phuong Hai JSC
More Data, Fewer Diacritics: Scaling Arabic TTS
Mar 2, 2026Ahmed Musleh, Yifan Zhang, Kareem DarwishTTS Synthesis Low-Resource TTS Synthesis
QCRI, HBKU, Qatar
ParsVoice: A Large-Scale Multi-Speaker Persian Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Oct 12, 2025Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh ShakeryTTS Synthesis Multi-Speaker TTS
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran · Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
Balalaika: Data-Centric, Prosody-Aware Annotation Pipeline for Russian Speech
Jul 17, 2025Kirill Borodin, Nikita Vasiliev, Vasiliy Kudryavtsev +3Speech Processing Speech Prosody
lab260, Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Russia · BitmanagerAI, UAE

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Monsoon: Scalable Spontaneous Speech Collection for Low-Resource ASR in 50 Languages

Shobhit Banga, Manas Dhir, Aaditya Pareek, Amritansh Walecha+7

Voice Arena

Speech Corpus Construction Low-Resource Speech Recognition Multilingual ASR

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For most languages, automatic speech recognition (ASR) is limited less by model architecture than by a lack of accurately transcribed spontaneous speech. We present Monsoon, a framework for collecting such data at scale. It elicits unscripted conversations between paired contributors, screens recordings with automated classifiers, corrects transcripts over five levels of human review, and selects segments for lexical and acoustic coverage. It has collected speech in 50 languages; we analyse seven 3,500-hour corpora. At equal volume, its quality stages reduce semantic word error rate (WER) by 10-39% relative to a conventional protocol. Compared with an architecture-matched baseline trained on public corpora, Whisper fine-tuned on Monsoon performs comparably on the baseline's own test sets and reduces semantic WER by 20-44 points on conversational benchmarks. The gains transfer to a second architecture and grow with data volume. We release the framework, its quality-control models, and the fine-tuned models.