We present free high quality multi-speaker speech corpora for Gujarati, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, which are six of the twenty two official languages of …

We provide a systematic review of past studies that use multilingual data for text-to-speech
(TTS) of low-resource languages (LRLs). We focus on the strategies used by these studies …

This paper presents a dataset of transcribed high-quality audio of English sentences
recorded by volunteers speaking with different accents of the British Isles. The dataset is …

We present speech corpora for Javanese, Sundanese, Sinhala, Nepali, and Bangladeshi
Bengali. Each corpus consists of an average of approximately 200k recorded utterances that …

In this paper we present a multidialectal corpus approach for building a text-to-speech voice
for a new dialect in a language with existing resources, focusing on various South American …

The availability of language resources is vital for the development of text-to-speech (TTS)
systems. Thus, open source resources are highly beneficial for TTS research communities …

This paper introduces an open-source speech dataset for Yoruba–one of the largest low-
resource West African languages spoken by at least 22 million people. Yoruba is one of the …

This paper introduces new open speech datasets for three of the languages of Spain:
Basque, Catalan and Galician. Catalan is furthermore the official language of the Principality …

This paper presents an overview of a program designed to address the growing need for
developing freely available speech resources for under-represented languages. At present …

This paper introduces an open-source crowd-sourced multi-speaker speech corpus along
with the comprehensive set of finite-state transducer (FST) grammars for performing text …