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Multilingual read speech
Recorded readings of parallel prompts for multilingual speech recognition and cross-language evaluation.
Reference collection scope102 languages
Read speech · 16 kHz audio
Dataset specifications for Multilingual read speech
- Formats & labels
- Audio with text and language metadata. Reference transcriptions and published train / validation / test splits.
- Fit & scope
- Read prompts, not spontaneous conversations or call-centre recordings. Confirm locale coverage and speaker splits for the task.
Indian-language speech
Read, extempore and conversational recordings spanning Indian languages, with transcription coverage that varies by release.
Reference collection scope22 languages
Multiple districts and speaking styles
Dataset specifications for Indian-language speech
- Formats & labels
- Release-specific audio, transcripts and metadata. Transcribed and untranscribed subsets; inspect the chosen version.
- Fit & scope
- Transcription coverage varies by release. These are human recordings, not human–bot support or escalation calls.
English audiobook speech
Segmented English audiobook recordings with aligned text, designed for speech-recognition training and evaluation.
Reference collection scopeApproximately 1,000 hours
English · 16 kHz read speech
Dataset specifications for English audiobook speech
- Formats & labels
- FLAC audio; text transcripts. Aligned transcripts and clean / other subsets with established splits.
- Fit & scope
- Narrated books, not spontaneous support calls. Some underlying recordings overlap with the multi-speaker read-speech option.
Multi-speaker read speech
Sentence-level English recordings with original and normalised text for speech-synthesis research and evaluation.
Reference collection scopeApproximately 585 hours
English · 24 kHz multi-speaker speech
Dataset specifications for Multi-speaker read speech
- Formats & labels
- WAV audio; original and normalised text. Sentence-aligned text, speaker information and published splits.
- Fit & scope
- Read English sentences, not conversational dialogue. Some recordings overlap with the English audiobook-speech option.
Short spoken commands
Short English words and background noise for keyword-spotting and compact voice-interface experiments.
Reference collection scope105,829 audio files
35 words · 16 kHz · mostly one-second clips
Dataset specifications for Short spoken commands
- Formats & labels
- WAV audio; labels and split lists. Word labels and speaker identifiers; noise recordings have different lengths.
- Fit & scope
- Short words and background noise, not dictation or dialogue. The final selection depends on the task.
Single-speaker English speech
Short passages from English books paired with text, recorded by one speaker.
Reference collection scope13,100 clips · about 24 hours
English · 22.05 kHz · single speaker
Dataset specifications for Single-speaker English speech
- Formats & labels
- 16-bit mono WAV; pipe-delimited metadata. Original and normalised text for each clip.
- Fit & scope
- One speaker only; not suitable for evaluating broad speaker diversity.