arXiv cs.CLPaper
Monsoon: Scalable Spontaneous Speech Collection for Low-Resource ASR in 50 Languages
This is a data infrastructure win. The framework works, the numbers transfer, and the team is releasing code and models. For builders in speech, especially in low-resource languages where data scarcity is the real limit, this is actionable. Fine-tuning Whisper on Monsoon data beats training on public corpora by a significant margin. The approach (paired elicitation, staged review, coverage selection) is reproducible. If you're shipping ASR in languages outside English, this matters.