2M-BELEBELE: Highly Multilingual Speech and American Sign Language Comprehension Dataset Download PDF

AbstractWe introduce the first highly multilingual speech and American Sign Language (ASL) comprehension dataset by extending BELEBELE. Our dataset covers 91 spoken languages at the intersection of BELEBELE and FLEURS, and one sign language (ASL). As a by-product we also extend the Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark, FLEURS, by 20%. We evaluate 2M-BELEBELE dataset for both 5-shot and zero-shot settings and across languages, the speech comprehension accuracy is ≈ 10% average lower compared to reading comprehension.