---
tags:
- speech-to-text-translation
- machine-translation
language:
- ind
- eng
---

# covost2

CoVoST2 is a large-scale multilingual speech translation corpus covering translations from 21 languages to English

and from English into 15 languages. The dataset is created using Mozilla's open-source Common Voice database of

crowdsourced voice recordings. There are 2,900 hours of speech represented in the corpus.

## Dataset Usage

Run `pip install nusacrowd` before loading the dataset through HuggingFace's `load_dataset`.

## Citation

```
@article{wang2020covost,
  title={Covost 2 and massively multilingual speech-to-text translation},
  author={Wang, Changhan and Wu, Anne and Pino, Juan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10310},
  year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{wang21s_interspeech,
  author={Wang, Changhan and Wu, Anne and Pino, Juan},
  title={{CoVoST 2 and Massively Multilingual Speech Translation}},
  year=2021,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2021},
  pages={2247--2251},
  url={https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2021/wang21s_interspeech}
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2027}
}
```

## License

CC BY-NC 4.0

## Homepage

[https://huggingface.co/datasets/covost2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/covost2)

### NusaCatalogue

For easy indexing and metadata: [https://indonlp.github.io/nusa-catalogue](https://indonlp.github.io/nusa-catalogue)