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arxiv:2609.36834

WenetSpeech-Min: A Large-Scale Minnan Speech Corpus with Dual Transcriptions for Dialectal Speech Processing

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Abstract

WenetSpeech-Min is a 10,000-hour open-source Minnan speech corpus with paired Mandarin transcripts, accompanied by ASR and TTS benchmarks and trained models that exceed open-source performance.

Progress in dialectal speech technology is hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, real-world corpora. For Minnan speech, existing resources remain limited, and few provide paired Minnan and Mandarin transcripts at scale. To address these gaps, we introduce WenetSpeech-Min, an open-source corpus comprising around 10,000 hours of Minnan speech collected from diverse online media, with paired Minnan and Mandarin transcripts for every utterance. We further establish an automatic speech recognition (ASR) benchmark covering both Minnan and Mandarin transcripts and a text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) benchmark using Minnan transcripts, with manually verified evaluation sets for both tasks. To assess the effectiveness of the corpus, we train ASR and TTS models on WenetSpeech-Min and compare them with representative systems on the proposed benchmarks. The resulting models outperform the evaluated open-source models on most metrics and achieve competitive performance against commercial systems. We will release the corpus, benchmarks, and models to facilitate reproducible research on Minnan speech technology.

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