DARIJA-C: A Crowdsourced Corpus for Moroccan DARIJA Speech-to-Text Translation

DARIJA-C: A Crowdsourced Corpus for Moroccan DARIJA Speech-to-Text Translation
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© 2024 by IJETT Journal
Volume-72 Issue-10
Year of Publication : 2024
Author : Maria Labied, Abdessamad Belangour, Mouad Banane
DOI : 10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V72I10P125

How to Cite?
Maria Labied, Abdessamad Belangour, Mouad Banane, "DARIJA-C: A Crowdsourced Corpus for Moroccan DARIJA Speech-to-Text Translation," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 257-266, 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V72I10P125

Abstract
This paper outlines the development of a Moroccan Darija speech corpus named "DARIJA-C". The primary goal of this corpus is to facilitate the automatic translation of spoken Moroccan Darija into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) text, offering potential applications across various sectors, including communication, education, and technology. To support ongoing and scalable data collection, we established a web platform that allows for the recording of speech and its corresponding text translation into MSA by anonymous contributors. Future iterations of this project aim to include translations into multiple international languages. The overarching aim of this initiative is to compile the largest and most diverse corpus of Moroccan Darija speech paired with textual translations in various languages. This will create a pioneering resource for the translation of Moroccan Darija speech into multiple languages, thus significantly contributing to the field of speech recognition and translation.

Keywords
Moroccan Darija, Speech corpus, Automatic speech recognition, Speech-to-text translation, Crowdsourcing, Modern standard arabic, Multilingual translation, Speech dataset, Language resources, DARIJA-C.

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