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## **AZB ASR Gold Testset: A Benchmark for South Azerbaijani (AZB) Speech Recognition**  

**گوزل دیلیمیزی قوریانلار یاشاسین.**  / Long live those who preserve our beautiful language!

To advance research in **low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR)**, we introduce **AZB ASR Gold Testset**, the **first benchmark dataset** for South Azerbaijani (AZB) ASR. This dataset serves as a **gold-standard evaluation set**, providing a high-quality resource for assessing speech recognition systems in this underrepresented language.  

### **📌 Dataset Overview**  
AZB ASR Gold Testset consists of:  
- **🔹 3,079 real human voice recordings**  
- **🔹 500 unique sentences**  
- **🔹 Diverse linguistic coverage**, including **scientific discourse, conversational speech, and regional dialects** of Azerbaijani written in **Arabic script (AZB)**  

As **no prior ASR benchmarks** exist for AZB, this dataset **establishes a crucial standard** for evaluating future ASR systems in the language.  

### **🎙️ Balanced Gender Representation**  
The dataset ensures **balanced speaker diversity**, with:  
- **40.6% Male speakers**  
- **59.4% Female speakers**  

### **🌍 Real-World Speech, Not Synthetic Data**  
Unlike many ASR evaluation datasets that rely on **synthetic speech**, the **AZB Gold Testset** consists **entirely of natural, human-recorded speech**. This makes it an essential benchmark for **real-world ASR performance**, particularly in **low-resource settings**.  

### **🛠️ Benchmarking ASR Models**  

This dataset can serves as a **reliable benchmark for future AZB ASR research**, enabling researchers to build and evaluate models tailored to this language.  

### **📥 Availability**  
The **AZB ASR Gold Testset** and accompanying **code** will be **publicly available**, encouraging further research and development in **low-resource ASR for AZB**.  

🚀 **Join us in advancing South Azerbaijani ASR research!**