The Faetar Benchmark: Speech Recognition in a Very Under-Resourced Language
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2024

We introduce the Faetar Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark, a benchmark corpus designed to push the limits of current approaches to low-resource speech recognition. Faetar, a Franco-Provençal variety spoken primarily in Italy, has no standard orthography, has virtually no existing textual or speech resources other than what is included in the benchmark, and is quite different from other forms of Franco-Provençal. The corpus comes from field recordings, most of which are noisy, for which only