CoVoST 2 Latvian - English

Description

This dataset contains 5094 audio clips totalling 04:13:11 of audio in Latvian 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_lv_19396785.mp3	Nenoturējās biznesā diez ko ilgi, bet tas ir ļoti neparedzams bizness.	He didn’t last too long in business, but it’s a very unpredictable business.	861eba97cfcab54709d73b55bf539dd28bd3489304153452e1b6d32e515c6df5df8ea4a4561a9cb1441f1604077e876c7fb050e346b77e75fc96be59ce3eed1e
common_voice_lv_19396798.mp3	Interesanta doma.	An interesting thought.	861eba97cfcab54709d73b55bf539dd28bd3489304153452e1b6d32e515c6df5df8ea4a4561a9cb1441f1604077e876c7fb050e346b77e75fc96be59ce3eed1e
common_voice_lv_19396799.mp3	Es nebiju baznīcā. Es neticu laulībām.	I wasn’t in church. I don’t believe in marriage.	861eba97cfcab54709d73b55bf539dd28bd3489304153452e1b6d32e515c6df5df8ea4a4561a9cb1441f1604077e876c7fb050e346b77e75fc96be59ce3eed1e
common_voice_lv_19396800.mp3	Viņš noteikti nospiedīs to pogu.	He’ll definitely press the button.	861eba97cfcab54709d73b55bf539dd28bd3489304153452e1b6d32e515c6df5df8ea4a4561a9cb1441f1604077e876c7fb050e346b77e75fc96be59ce3eed1e

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}
}