---
dataset_info:
- config_name: ar-en
  features:
  - name: client_id
    dtype: string
  - name: file
    dtype: string
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
  - name: sentence
    dtype: string
  - name: translation
    dtype: string
  - name: id
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_examples: 2283
  - name: test
    num_examples: 1758
  - name: validation
    num_examples: 1695
- config_name: en-ar
  features:
  - name: client_id
    dtype: string
  - name: file
    dtype: string
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
  - name: sentence
    dtype: string
  - name: translation
    dtype: string
  - name: id
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_examples: 289430
  - name: test
    num_examples: 15531
  - name: validation
    num_examples: 15531
configs:
- config_name: ar-en
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: ar-en/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: ar-en/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: ar-en/test-*
- config_name: en-ar
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: en-ar/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: en-ar/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: en-ar/test-*
license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- text-to-speech
language:
- ar
- en
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---


## Dataset Description

CoVoST 2 is a large-scale multilingual speech translation corpus based on Common Voice, developed by FAIR. This is the English-to-Arabic portion of the dataset. The original dataset can be found [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/covost).


## Data Splits (EN-AR)

| lang  | train  | validation | test  |
|-------|--------|------------|-------|
| EN-AR | 289430 | 15531      | 15531 |
| AR-EN | 2283	 | 1758	      | 1695  |

## Citation

```
@misc{wang2020covost,
    title={CoVoST 2: A Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation Corpus},
    author={Changhan Wang and Anne Wu and Juan Pino},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2007.10310},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```