Banglish

A Bilingual Dataset for Bangla and English Voice Commands

Colloquial Bangla has adopted many English words due to colonial influence. In conversational Bangla, it is quite common to speak in a mixture of English and Bangla. This phenomenon, prevalent in conversational language is known as code-switching (CS). CS is defined as the continuous alternation between two languages in a single conversation. Thus, in Bangla natural language processing, it is often necessary to map a single base command to its many different variants - spoken in multiple mixtures of English and Bangla. In order to facilitate this, we have curated a dataset centered around common browser commands.