Dauitbay Nasiredinov

Karakalpak Speech Recognition with Whisper: An Open 107-Hour Corpus, a Held-Out Benchmark, and Knowledge Distillation into Smaller Models

Karakalpak is a Turkic language spoken by roughly 0.8–0.9 million people, chiefly in the Republic of Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), and has almost no open speech technology. We release the Karakalpak Speech Corpus, 106.9 hours (21,702 utterances) of read speech contributed by more than 200 volunteers, with speaker-disjoi...