Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models
Speech know-how nonetheless has an information distribution drawback. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) techniques have improved quickly for high-resource languages, however many African languages stay poorly represented in open corpora. A staff of researchers from Google and different collaborators introduce WAXAL, an open multilingual speech dataset for African languages protecting 24 languages, with…
