Speech Resources in the Tamasheq Language

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In this paper we present two datasets for Tamasheq, a developing language mainly spoken in Mali and Niger.

• These two datasets were made available for the IWSLT 2022 low-resource speech translation track, and they consist of collections of radio recordings from daily broadcast news in Niger (Studio Kalangou) and Mali (Studio Tamani).
• We share (i) a massive amount of unlabeled audio data (671 hours) in five languages: French from Niger, Fulfulde, Hausa, Tamasheq and Zarma, and (ii) a smaller 17 hours parallel corpus of audio recordings in Tamasheq, with utterance-level translations in the French language.
• All this data is shared under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.