Samromur Children: An Icelandic Speech Corpus

Y Samromur Children is an Icelandic speech corpus intended for the field of automatic speech recognition. It contains 131 hours of read speech from Icelandic children aged between 4 to 17 years. The test portion was meticulously selected to cover a wide range of ages as possible as we aimed to have exactly the same amount of data per age range. The speech was collected with the crowd-sourcing platform samromur.is, which is inspired on the "Mozilla's Common Voice Project". The corpus was developed within the framework of the "Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019 2023"; the goal of the project is to make Icelandic available in language-technology applications. Samromur Children is the first corpus in Icelandic with children's voices for public use under a Creative Commons license. Additionally, we present baseline experiments and results using Kaldi.