CoVoST 2 Catalan - English

Description

This dataset contains 121317 audio clips totalling 157:50:32 of audio in Catalan with the corresponding translations in English.

Background

End-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) has recently witnessed an increased interest given its system simplicity, lower inference latency and less compounding errors compared to cascaded ST (i.e. speech recognition + machine translation). End-to-end ST model training, however, is often hampered by the lack of parallel data. Thus, we created CoVoST, a large-scale multilingual ST corpus based on Common Voice, to foster ST research with the largest ever open dataset. Its latest version covers translations from English into 15 languages---Arabic, Catalan, Welsh, German, Estonian, Persian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian, Mongolian, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Chinese---and from 21 languages into English, including the 15 target languages as well as Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian. It has total 2,880 hours of speech and is diversified with 78K speakers.

Fields

• path: Filename of the audio file

• sentence: The sentence in the source language

• translation: The sentence in the target language

• client_id: The ID of the speaker of the source language, used for maintaining hygiene in the splits.

Example

path	sentence	translation	client_id
common_voice_ca_19898602.mp3	"Els caus consten típicament d'un passadís principal que es divideix en moltes branques."	Dens are normally made up of a main corridor that is divided into a lot of branches.	6c8bda7a6d2dfbb04c3fd9dea23d48ff8fa18d81c988d3fcaa2614af06b986be9d0f26593815aa6ef2ae955084bfc48b40201c9a83df6dd22d8c87eccc9694d3
common_voice_ca_19898603.mp3	"S'empra regularment en macedònic per evitar l'ambigüitat que podria donar-se en alguns casos."	It is usually used in Macedonian in order to avoid ambiguity in some cases.	6c8bda7a6d2dfbb04c3fd9dea23d48ff8fa18d81c988d3fcaa2614af06b986be9d0f26593815aa6ef2ae955084bfc48b40201c9a83df6dd22d8c87eccc9694d3
common_voice_ca_19898604.mp3	Les abelles atacades són més propenses a infeccions.	Attacked bees are more prone to infections.	6c8bda7a6d2dfbb04c3fd9dea23d48ff8fa18d81c988d3fcaa2614af06b986be9d0f26593815aa6ef2ae955084bfc48b40201c9a83df6dd22d8c87eccc9694d3
common_voice_ca_19898605.mp3	És de dimensions molt petites.	It is very small.	6c8bda7a6d2dfbb04c3fd9dea23d48ff8fa18d81c988d3fcaa2614af06b986be9d0f26593815aa6ef2ae955084bfc48b40201c9a83df6dd22d8c87eccc9694d3

Splits

Citation

If you use this dataset in your work please cite

@misc{wang2020covost,
    title={CoVoST 2: A Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation Corpus},
    author={Changhan Wang and Anne Wu and Juan Pino},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2007.10310},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}