What is Code-Switching?
Switching between two or more languages inside a single sentence. Hinglish and Taglish are the standard examples.
This is not substandard speech. It is how most bilingual speakers talk, and it is especially common in Indian English, Singapore English and Filipino.
The hard part of this data is marking the switch points — the exact position where language A becomes language B. Different annotators will place it several words apart.
Related terms
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Code-Switching Speech
Speech that mixes two or more languages inside a single utterance — Hinglish, Spanglish, Taglish — used for recognition in real spoken settings.
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Annotation
Attaching machine-readable labels to raw data — a transcript, an intent, a speaker identity.
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