arXiv AI
Jun 3
BaltiVoice: A Speech Corpus and Fine-tuned Whisper ASR System for the Balti Language
arXiv:2606. 03504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present BaltiVoice, a 16.
BaltiVoice: A Speech Corpus and Fine-tuned Whisper ASR System for the Balti Language
We present BaltiVoice, a 16. 8-hour read-speech corpus for Balti (ISO 639-3: bft), a Tibetic language spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, with no prior publicly available ASR resources.
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