Speech dataset resources

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This table summarizes dataset resources available

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Dataset name Type of data Annotation remarks License Metadata Name/s of people who are entering the data Who are you entering the data?
LibriSpeech Audio books (clean, flac format)
  • Text is converted into upper-case, removed punctuation, expanding common abbreviations and non-standard words.
  • The transcriptions are aligned and segmented automatically.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • Language: English
  • The dataset is split into 3 sections with 100.6, 363.6, 496.7 hours of speech.
  • The gender ratio of speakers is about half and half.
  • Dataset is made by Vassil Panayotov.
  • Guoguo Chen , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur are also contributed to the dataset and article below.
Hugging Face
LibriVoxDeEn Audio based on audio books (.wav file format)

German text and English translation (.tsv file format)

  1. Low Disfluencies: The speech data in the dataset have a low level of disfluencies.
  2. Quality Evaluation: The quality of both audio and sentence alignments in the dataset has been assessed through manual evaluation.
  3. Sentence Alignment Quality: The quality of sentence alignments is stated to be comparable to widely-used parallel translation datasets.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Non-Commercial ShareAlike Internation License
  • German audio and transcription, with English translation.
  • >100 hours of audio material and >50k parallel sentences.
  • Quality of audio and text has been evaluated manually.
Benjamin Beilharz, Xin Sun, Sariya Karimova, Stefan Riezler Jocomin Galarneau & Ding Shenghuan & Ömer Tarik Özyilmaz
SPEECH-COCO Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Liscence
  • Language: English
  • This corpus contains 616,767 spoken captions from MSCOCO's val2014 and train2014 subsets
  • 8 different voices. 4 of them have a British accent and the 4 others with American accent.
  • William Havard, Laurent Besacier, Olivier Rosec
SAF (Short Answer Feedback Dataset) based on audio books (.wav
  • CC BY-SA
ASR-ETELECSC WAV (PCM)

TXT (UTF-8)

Speakers' gender

Noise/laughter marked

Languages mentioned

Starting and ending time of speech

Speakers sequenced as numbers [1]/[2]

Sound unrecognized as [UNKNOWN]

Pause marked as [+]

Incomplete words marked as [~]

Ambiguity marked as [*]

MAGIC DATA

OPEN-SOURCE LICENSE

  • Total Duration: 5.04h
  • Language: EN
  • Speech Style: spontaneous conversation
  • Audio parameters: 16 kHz, 16 bits, mono
  • Recording Equipment: Telephony
  • Recording Environment: Indoor Environment
Europarl-ASR A speech and text corpus of parliamentary debates (audio format .m4a; transcription format: .txt; metadata: .csv) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
  • Language : English
  • 1300 hours of English annotated speech data
  • 3 full sets of timed transcriptions
  • 70 million tokens of English-language text data.
•Gonçal V. Garcés Díaz-Munío

•Joan Albert Silvestre-Cerdà

Dongwen Zhu & Yaling Deng & Chenyi Lin & Soogyeong Shin
AliMeeting (Multi-Channel Multi-Party Meeting Transcription Challenge)
  • 120 hours of real-recorded Mandarin meeting speech data with manual annotation, including far-field data collected by 8-channel microphone array as well as near-field data collected by each participants’ headset microphone.
  • All transcripts of each meeting are stored in TextGrid format
Already accurate enough, but uniquely formeetings like the AliMeeting data, speaker overlap should be explicitly addressed, this question still need to be improved. Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
  • Language : Mandarin
  • Duration: 118.75 hours of voice data, including 104.75 hours of training set (Train), 4 hours of validation set (Eval), and 10 hours of test set (Test)
  • Number of talkers : 456 (Male: 246, Female: 210)
  • Environment: 13 different conference rooms, divided into three types according to size: small, medium and large, with room areas ranging from 8 to 55 square meters
Alibaba Group Dongwen Zhu & Yaling Deng & Chenyi Lin & Soogyeong Shin
TED-LIUM 3
  • Language: English
  • Transcription: Yes ( format: stm)
  • Duration: 452 hrs
  • Number of talkers: 1938 (Male: 1303; Female: 635)
  • Alignments: cover around 83.0% of audio; 3.2M words
  • Access: freely available for the research community

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Notes on LibriSpeech

  • We only used the development set to test our ASR code in Python;
  • The names of the speakers who recorded all the audiobooks contained in this corpus are also available in a separate text file;
  • Exhaustive information about this dataset can be found in this article;
  • This dataset was included in the Kaldi speech recognition toolkit.
  • Another version of research on LibriSpeech by Yuxing Ouyang, Xiaoling Lin, Xueying Liu, Jingxuan Yue, M.Tepei can be found in Librispeech.