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You wouldn't even need Kabyle TTS for something like Clozemaster to support the language, since there are more than 50 000 recordings https://tatoeba.org/en/aud
by yorwba 3y ago
You wouldn't even need Kabyle TTS for something like Clozemaster to support the language, since there are more than 50 000 recordings https://tatoeba.org/en/audio/index/kab https://tatoeba.org/en/audio/index/kab
(The reason for these large numbers is that there's a political movement demanding independence or at least autonomy from Algeria, which has latched onto language promotion as a way to further their cause. Similar to Catalan topping the number of recorded hours on Mozilla Common Voice.)
- mtalantikite 3y agoOh yeah, absolutely -- I was still surprised they had gotten the data set to that level. My dad likes to point out an old French map from 1846 that has "Kabilie independante" written on the region [1]. A few years back I was in Bejaia when a lot of the protests were going on, which were both against Bouteflika and also pro-independence. Regardless of where anyone stands on the issue, it's great that people are making that data set available! [1] https://www.loc.gov/resource/g8241e.ct003442/ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g8241e.ct003442/