Radio Haiti-Inter: A Large-Scale Annotated Corpus of Spoken Haitian Creole

William N. Havard, Rayan Ziane, Mélissa Menclé, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, Emmanuel Schang


Abstract
We present the first large-scale corpus of spoken Haitian Creole (Kreyòl), namely Radio Haiti-Inter. The corpus was constructed using automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a state-of-the-art model specifically dedicated to Kreyòl. 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 Kreyòl, 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 Kreyòl.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.241
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
Venue:
LREC
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
3083–3093
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-241
DOI:
10.63317/5kk3h4p3mp5d
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Cite (ACL):
William N. Havard, Rayan Ziane, Mélissa Menclé, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, and Emmanuel Schang. 2026. Radio Haiti-Inter: A Large-Scale Annotated Corpus of Spoken Haitian Creole. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3083–3093, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
Cite (Informal):
Radio Haiti-Inter: A Large-Scale Annotated Corpus of Spoken Haitian Creole (Havard et al., LREC 2026)
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