What is Low-Resource Language?
A language with very little public corpus, so a model cannot learn it from what already exists.
Low-resource does not mean few speakers. Many low-resource languages have tens of millions of native speakers; what is scarce is digitized public corpus.
Data for these languages has to be collected from scratch, which makes it expensive — and also means there is little competition, so what you build is a scarce asset.
Related terms
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Multilingual Speech
Speech data covering multiple languages within one project, used for multilingual ASR, cross-lingual transfer, and language identification.
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Annotation
Attaching machine-readable labels to raw data — a transcript, an intent, a speaker identity.
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