  The Huqariq corpus is a multilingual collection of speech from native
Peruvian languages. The transcribed corpus is intended for the research and
development of speech technologies to preserve endangered languages in Peru.
Huqariq is primarily designed for the development of automatic speech
recognition, language identification and text-to-speech tools. In order to
achieve corpus collection sustainably, we employ the crowdsourcing methodology.
Huqariq includes four native languages of Peru, and it is expected that by the
end of the year 2022, it can reach up to 20 native languages out of the 48
native languages in Peru. The corpus has 220 hours of transcribed audio
recorded by more than 500 volunteers, making it the largest speech corpus for
native languages in Peru. In order to verify the quality of the corpus, we
present speech recognition experiments using 220 hours of fully transcribed
audio.
