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title = "{MOSEL}: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on {EU} Languages",
author = "Gaido, Marco and
Papi, Sara and
Bentivogli, Luisa and
Brutti, Alessio and
Cettolo, Mauro and
Gretter, Roberto and
Matassoni, Marco and
Nabih, Mohamed and
Negri, Matteo",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.771",
pages = "13934--13947",
abstract = "The rise of foundation models (FMs), coupled with regulatory efforts addressing their risks and impacts, has sparked significant interest in open-source models. However, existing speech FMs (SFMs) fall short of full compliance with the open-source principles, even if claimed otherwise, as no existing SFM has model weights, code, and training data publicly available under open-source terms. In this work, we take the first step toward filling this gap by focusing on the 24 official languages of the European Union (EU). We collect suitable training data by surveying automatic speech recognition datasets and unlabeled speech corpora under open-source compliant licenses, for a total of 950k hours. Additionally, we release automatic transcripts for 441k hours of unlabeled data under the permissive CC-BY license, thereby facilitating the creation of open-source SFMs for the EU languages.",
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%T MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on EU Languages
%A Gaido, Marco
%A Papi, Sara
%A Bentivogli, Luisa
%A Brutti, Alessio
%A Cettolo, Mauro
%A Gretter, Roberto
%A Matassoni, Marco
%A Nabih, Mohamed
%A Negri, Matteo
%Y Al-Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Bansal, Mohit
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%S Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F gaido-etal-2024-mosel
%X The rise of foundation models (FMs), coupled with regulatory efforts addressing their risks and impacts, has sparked significant interest in open-source models. However, existing speech FMs (SFMs) fall short of full compliance with the open-source principles, even if claimed otherwise, as no existing SFM has model weights, code, and training data publicly available under open-source terms. In this work, we take the first step toward filling this gap by focusing on the 24 official languages of the European Union (EU). We collect suitable training data by surveying automatic speech recognition datasets and unlabeled speech corpora under open-source compliant licenses, for a total of 950k hours. Additionally, we release automatic transcripts for 441k hours of unlabeled data under the permissive CC-BY license, thereby facilitating the creation of open-source SFMs for the EU languages.
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%P 13934-13947
Markdown (Informal)
[MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on EU Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.771) (Gaido et al., EMNLP 2024)
ACL
- Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Luisa Bentivogli, Alessio Brutti, Mauro Cettolo, Roberto Gretter, Marco Matassoni, Mohamed Nabih, and Matteo Negri. 2024. MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on EU Languages. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 13934–13947, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.