Southern Kurdish ASR Benchmark

Year: 2026
Size: Approximately 30 hours of validated speech
License:
Domain: Automatic Speech Recognition
Languages:
Southern Kurdish
Formats:
Audio Text Transcriptions

Resource Description

A Southern Kurdish speech-recognition resource and benchmark introduced for low-resource ASR evaluation. The associated study reports approximately 30 hours of validated read speech and evaluates Whisper-turbo and wav2vec-BERT CTC baselines.

Data Structure

Validated Southern Kurdish read speech with corresponding transcriptions for ASR benchmarking.

Primary Publication

Southern Kurdish Speech Recognition Resources and Benchmarking

Mohammad Mohammadamini , Marie Tahon (2026)

Introduces speech-recognition resources and an evaluation benchmark for Southern Kurdish, including approximately 30 hours of validated read speech. Whisper-turbo and wav2vec-BERT CTC baselines are …

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Dataset Information

Total Size Approximately 30 hours of validated speech
Languages 1 language
Formats 2 formats
Related Papers 1 publication

Data Access

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