Assessing the Reusability of Public Speech Resources for Low-Resource Languages: A Central Kurdish Case Study

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arXiv:2609.11246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kurdish is spoken by millions of people, but little technology can read it aloud. A recent study released three Kurdish voices, 35 hours of recorded speech, and a paper describing the work, all free to download. This review checks how well those public files match the paper. The research is careful about its limits, but the files contain several problems: a settings file lists equipment that was never used, test recordings are left unlabeled among