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Kurdish speech dataset review finds data issues, overstated results

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A recent study released three Kurdish voices, 35 hours of recorded speech, and a paper detailing the work, all intended for low-resource language technology development. However, an assessment of the publicly available files revealed several issues, including an inaccurate settings file, unlabeled test recordings mixed with training data, and a coding error affecting numerical data. The download page also overstated the results compared to the paper's findings and recommended a voice that may not represent the full linguistic diversity of Kurdish due to its construction from only three speakers reading prepared texts. The study's license terms could also impact future development if corrected versions are not permitted to be shared. AI

IMPACT Potential issues with data quality and representation could hinder the development of speech technology for low-resource languages like Kurdish.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hiwa Asadpour ·

    Assessing the Reusability of Public Speech Resources for Low-Resource Languages: A Central Kurdish Case Study

    arXiv:2609.11246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kurdish is spoken by millions of people, but little technology can read it aloud. A recent study released three Kurdish voices, 35 hours of recorded speech, and a paper describing the work, all free to download. This review checks h…

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