MMboshi: Multilingual Mboshi Parallel Corpus

This is an extension of the Mboshi-French parallel corpus available at besacier/mboshi-french-parallel-corpus. The French portion of the corpus was translated into four other well-resourced languages (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish) using the DeepL translation platform.

Content:

• This corpus is made of 5,130 aligned sentences in the following languages:

  • Mboshi (Bantu C25); audio files, phonetic transcriptions with segmentation information;
  • French; text (original translation made by linguists)
  • English; German; Portuguese; Spanish; text (translated from French using DeepL)

• Forced-alignment (word-level) between Mboshi and French;

• Pseudo phones (with and without gold silence information), extracted using ZRC recipe from beer-asr/asr;

• True phones, from the limsi-align.

The new ZRC reference is available here.

Citing:

The original paper for this corpus is available here, while this extension was presented at this paper.

Use this following bibtex for citing the mboshi-french-parallel-corpus:

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1710-03501,
  author    = {Pierre Godard and
               Gilles Adda and
               Martine Adda{-}Decker and
               Juan Benjumea and
               Laurent Besacier and
               Jamison Cooper{-}Leavitt and
               Guy{-}No{\"{e}}l Kouarata and
               Lori Lamel and
               H{\'{e}}l{\`{e}}ne Maynard and
               Markus M{\"{u}}ller and
               Annie Rialland and
               Sebastian St{\"{u}}ker and
               Fran{\c{c}}ois Yvon and
               Marcely Zanon Boito},
  title     = {A Very Low Resource Language Speech Corpus for Computational Language
               Documentation Experiments},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1710.03501},
  year      = {2017},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03501},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {1710.03501},
  timestamp = {Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:17:17 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/journals/corr/abs-1710-03501},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Use this following bibtex for citing the mmboshi corpus:

@article{boito2019does,
  title={How Does Language Influence Documentation Workflow? 
         Unsupervised Word Discovery Using Translations in Multiple Languages},
  author={Boito, Marcely Zanon and 
          Villavicencio, Aline and 
          Besacier, Laurent},
  journal={LIFT 2019},
  year={2019}
}