CASR: A Corpus for Albanian Speech Recognition

This research paper introduces a Corpus for Albanian Speech Recognition (CASR), aims for training and evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition models for Albanian language. The corpus is based on bible' audiobook, comprising 20 hours of transcribed audio data, where transcripts and audios are in the Albanian standard language. An end-to-end speech recognition model based on deep learning is implemented to test and evaluate this corpus. It shows that acoustic models trained on CASR gives satisfactory results. The corpus will be freely available for independent research and provides a valuable resource for research on Albanian ASR.