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title = "Radio {H}aiti-Inter: A Large-Scale Annotated Corpus of Spoken {H}aitian {C}reole",
author = "Havard, William N. and
Ziane, Rayan and
Mencl{\'e}, M{\'e}lissa and
Coavoux, Maximin and
Lecouteux, Benjamin and
Schang, Emmanuel",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.241/",
doi = "10.63317/5kk3h4p3mp5d",
pages = "3083--3093",
abstract = "We present the first large-scale corpus of spoken Haitian Creole (Krey{\`o}l), namely Radio Haiti-Inter. The corpus was constructed using automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a state-of-the-art model specifically dedicated to Krey{\`o}l. In addition to transcriptions, we provide part-of-speech (POS) tags, as well as time-aligned transcripts and confidence scores, enabling users to select the most reliable segments for their research. We conduct a manual evaluation of both the transcription quality and POS tagging accuracy to assess the reliability of the resource we present. To enable high-quality research with the resource we introduce, we are releasing 50 hours, comprising both the audios and attached annotations, drawn from the highest-quality segments. This corpus represents an invaluable resource for advancing the study of Krey{\`o}l, with potential applications in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, as well as the study of code-switching and code-mixing. As the recordings cover a large span of years, the corpus we introduce is also suited to micro-diachronic studies of Krey{\`o}l."
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%A Havard, William N.
%A Ziane, Rayan
%A Menclé, Mélissa
%A Coavoux, Maximin
%A Lecouteux, Benjamin
%A Schang, Emmanuel
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Markdown (Informal)
[Radio Haiti-Inter: A Large-Scale Annotated Corpus of Spoken Haitian Creole](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.241/) (Havard et al., LREC 2026)
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