Papers by Hafsah Faquih
IndicVoices: Towards building an Inclusive Multilingual Speech Dataset for Indian Languages (2024.findings-acl)
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Tahir Javed, Janki Nawale, Eldho George, Sakshi Joshi, Kaushal Bhogale, Deovrat Mehendale, Ishvinder Sethi, Aparna Ananthanarayanan, Hafsah Faquih, Pratiti Palit, Sneha Ravishankar, Saranya Sukumaran, Tripura Panchagnula, Sunjay Murali, Kunal Gandhi, Ambujavalli R, Manickam M, C Vaijayanthi, Krishnan Karunganni, Pratyush Kumar, Mitesh Khapra
| Challenge: | Using INDICVOICES, we build the first ASR model to support all 22 languages listed in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset of natural and spontaneous speech from 16237 speakers covering 145 Indian districts and 22 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains 7348 hours of read, extempore and conversational audio from 16237 speakers covering 145 Indian districts and 22 languages. |