TEDxTN: A Three-way Speech Translation Corpus for Code-Switched Tunisian Arabic - English

Contact person : fethi.bougares@elyadata.com

We introduce TEDxTN, the first publicly available Tunisian Arabic to English speech translation dataset. This work is in line with the ongoing effort to mitigate the data scarcity obstacle for a number of Arabic dialects. We collected, segmented, transcribed and translated 108 TEDx talks following our internally developed annotations guidelines. The collected talks represent 25 hours of speech with code-switching that cover speakers with various accents from over 11 different regions of Tunisia.

Paper

https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-main.22.pdf

Dataset Description

• Curated by: Fethi Bougares
• Shared by [optional]: Fethi Bougares
• Language(s) (NLP) : Tunisian Arabic
• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{bougares-etal-2025-tedxtn,
    title = "{TED}x{TN}: A Three-way Speech Translation Corpus for Code-Switched {T}unisian {A}rabic - {E}nglish",
    author = "Bougares, Fethi  and Mdhaffar, Salima  and Elleuch, Haroun  and Est{\`e}ve, Yannick",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-main.22/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.arabicnlp-main.22",
    pages = "278--287",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-352-4"
}