McGill-NLP/speech-translation-and-summarization

English-Centric Multilingual Audio Dataset

This dataset contains generated article and summary audio for English-centric multilingual directions.

Each direction folder contains metadata JSONL files and corresponding audio files for few_shot and test splits.

Included directions

• amharic_english / english_amharic
• arabic_english / english_arabic
• bengali_english / english_bengali
• chinese_simplified_english / english_chinese_simplified
• english_english
• french_english / english_french
• gujarati_english / english_gujarati
• hindi_english / english_hindi
• indonesian_english / english_indonesian
• japanese_english / english_japanese
• korean_english / english_korean
• kyrgyz_english / english_kyrgyz
• persian_english / english_persian
• portuguese_english / english_portuguese
• punjabi_english / english_punjabi
• russian_english / english_russian
• sinhala_english / english_sinhala
• spanish_english / english_spanish
• swahili_english / english_swahili
• tamil_english / english_tamil
• telugu_english / english_telugu
• thai_english / english_thai
• turkish_english / english_turkish
• ukrainian_english / english_ukrainian
• vietnamese_english / english_vietnamese

Structure

Each language direction is stored as:

data/english_centric/{direction}/
  few_shot.jsonl
  test.jsonl
  audio/
    few_shot/
      article/
      summary/
    test/
      article/
      summary/

Citation

Please cite using:

@misc{jeon-etal-2026-multilingual-spoken-news-corpus,
 title = {VoxSumm: A Multilingual Corpus of Long-Form Spoken News for Joint Summarization and Translation},
 author = {Jeon, Yejin and Maltais, Marie and Ceccatelli, Virginia and Ma, Min and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa},
 year = {2026},
 archivePrefix={arXiv},
 primaryClass={cs.SD},
}