FLEURS-Kobani: Extending the FLEURS Dataset for Northern Kurdish
Authors
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP
January 1, 2026
Abstract
Extends the multilingual FLEURS benchmark to Northern Kurdish with 5,162 validated utterances totaling 18 hours and 24 minutes from 31 native speakers. The resource supports ASR and speech-translation evaluation; the reported Whisper v3-large ASR baseline achieved 28.11% WER and 9.84% CER.
Keywords
Automatic Speech Recognition
Northern Kurdish
Kurmanji
FLEURS
Whisper
Related Datasets
Mozilla Common Voice 18.0 - Northern Kurdish
2024
Approximately 101 recorded hours; approximately 68 validated hours
Audio, Text Transcriptions
Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) speech data from Mozilla Common Voice 18.0 used for end-to-end Transformer-based ASR research. The referenced study reports approximately 101 hours of recorded speech and …
FLEURS-Kobani
2026
5,162 validated utterances; 18 hours 24 minutes; 31 speakers
Audio, Text Transcriptions
An extension of the FLEURS multilingual speech benchmark for Northern Kurdish. The resource contains 5,162 validated utterances totaling 18 hours and 24 minutes of speech from 31 native speakers and …
Citation
Jaff, D. Q., & Mohammadamini, M. (2026). FLEURS-Kobani: Extending the FLEURS Dataset for Northern Kurdish. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP.