Christmas Gospel text-to-speech in four Uralic languages, source

Jouluevankeliumi tekstistä puheeksi neljällä uralilaisella kielellä, lähdemateriaali

shortname: xmas-gospel-tts-src

metadata: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2023110601

IPR holder: Raamatunkäännösinstituutti ry

license: CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)
The complete license is available at http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2023110603

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This resource consists of .txt, .wav and linked morpho-syntactically
annotated .vrt files in four languages pertaining to the
Finnish Christmas Gospel verses Luke 2.1-20.

The four languages include Komi-Zyrian (kpv), Erzya (myv), Karelian (krl) 
and Olonets-Karelian (olo, aka Livvi), whose texts are all included
in the Parallel Biblical Verses for Uralic Studies (PaBiVUS) corpus (LUK.2.1-20).

The .wav files have been produced by Aleksei Ivanov, Niko Partanen 
and Jack Rueter, who have made use of the Facebook MMS
(https://ai.meta.com/blog/multilingual-model-speech-recognition/) 
with language support for hundreds of languages
(https://huggingface.co/facebook/mms-tts#supported-languages).
While the Komi-Zyrian (kpv), Erzya (myv), Karelian (krl) are reported 
as having coverage for ASR, TTS and LID, Olonets-Karelian
(olo, aka Livvi) is not mentioned at all. The Olonets-Karelian .wav 
has been produced using the krl TTS, as both language forms use
writing systems with basically the same character to sound correlation.

The names of the files follow a pattern that can be associated directly 
with the identifiers used in correlating Bible verses in the PaBiVUS corpus.
xmas-gospel + iso_lang + book of the Bible three-letter abbreviation + 
chapter number + verse number, e.g. xmas-gospel-krl-LUK.2.1.txt


For further information, please contact fin-clarin@helsinki.fi .