Northern Kurdish Raw Audio Collection for Speech Processing Research

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) speech recordings gathered from publicly available Kurdish media sources. The corpus was assembled by aranemini to support research and development in automatic speech recognition, speech translation, and other speech processing tasks. The dataset was last updated on June 20, 2026.

Use Cases

• Train Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models based on raw Northern Kurdish audio.
• Develop Speech Translation (ST) systems based on the described audio corpus.
• Create Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices based on the described raw speech recordings.
• Conduct Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) experiments based on the unlabeled audio data.
• Build Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) applications based on the described speech data.

Strengths

• Dataset is described as a 'large collection' of raw speech recordings.
• Explicitly assembled to support multiple research areas including ASR, ST, TTS, SSL, and SLU.
• Focuses on Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), a language described as low-resource for speech processing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and exact size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to the Kurdish media sources used for collection.

Provenance

Source

Publicly available Kurdish media sources.

Collection Method

Assembled/gathered from media sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-20 08:07:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely covers regions where Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is spoken.