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Release Date: 10/2/2026
Format: MP3, TSV
Size: 190.76 MB
Read speech in Congolese Swahili covering the dev and test sets of the TICO-19 benchmark. Dev: 868 clips; test: 2,124 clips. Audio produced by CLEAR Global voice talent in 2021. These recordings formed the dev and evaluation material of the IWSLT 2021 Low-Resource Speech Translation shared task.
Licensing
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Non-commercial use only. Attribution to CLEAR Global required.
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Commercial use without permission from CLEAR Global.
Ethical Review
Voice talent consented. Session-anonymized; no personal data included.
Intended Use
Evaluation of ASR and speech translation systems for Congolese Swahili in the medical/COVID domain.
Congolese Swahili speech portion of the TICO-19 benchmark. Spoken audio collected by CLEAR Global for the IWSLT 2021 Low-Resource Speech Translation shared task. Published on Hugging Face as CLEAR-Global/TICO-19-swc-speech. Please check README.md for more information.
TICO-19 stands for Translation Initiative for Covid-19 and is a collaboration of CLEAR Global (formerly known as Translators without Borders) between several academic (Carnegie Mellon University, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University) and industry (Amazon, Appen, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Translated) partners. Original dataset is 30 documents (3071 sentences, 69.7k words) translated from English into 36 languages and is published with CC0 license. Check initiative webpage for more information.
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos2020tico,
author = {Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Cattelan, Alessandro and Dou, Zi-Yi and Federico, Marcello and Federmann, Christian and Genzel, Dmitriy and Guzm{'a}n, Franscisco and Hu, Junjie and Hughes, Macduff and Koehn, Philipp and Lazar, Rosie and Lewis, Will and Neubig, Graham and Niu, Mengmeng and {"O}ktem, Alp and Paquin, Eric and Tang, Grace and Tur, Sylwia},
title = {{TICO-19}: the Translation Initiative for {CO}vid-19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on {NLP} for {COVID-19} (Part 2) at {EMNLP} 2020},
year = {2020},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5/}
}
The recordings were used as the dev and evaluation data of the IWSLT 2021 low-resource shared task; please also cite:
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos2021findings,
author = {Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Bojar, Ond{ {r}}ej and Declerck, Jind{ {r}}ich and others},
title = {Findings of the {IWSLT} 2021 Evaluation Campaign},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021)},
year = {2021},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwslt-1.1/}
}