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+# The Croatian Parliamentary Spoken Dataset ParlaSpeech-HR 2.0
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+http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1914
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+The ParlaSpeech-HR dataset is built from the transcripts of parliamentary proceedings available in the Croatian part of the ParlaMint corpus, and the parliamentary recordings available from the Croatian Parliament's YouTube channel.
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+The corpus consists of audio segments that correspond to specific sentences in the transcripts. The transcript contains word-level alignments to the recordings, each instance consisting of character and millisecond start and end offsets, allowing for simple further segmentation of long sentences into shorter segments for ASR and other memory-sensitive applications. There is also an audio length attribute, allowing for simple discarding of too long segments (80% of the content is below 30 seconds).
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+Each segment has an identifier reference to the ParlaMint 4.0 corpus (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1859) via the utterance ID and character offsets.
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+While in the original dataset all the speaker information from the ParlaMint corpus is available via the `speaker_info` attribute, in the HuggingFace version only a subset of metadata is available, namely: the date, the name of the speaker, their gender, year of birth, party affiliation at that point in time, status of the party at that point in time (coalition or opposition), and party orientation (left, right, centre etc.).
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+Different to the original dataset, this version has also a `text_normalised` attribute, which contains the text with parliamentary comments (`[[Applause]]` and similar) removed.
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+If you use the dataset, please cite the following paper:
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+```
+@inproceedings{ljubesic-etal-2022-parlaspeech,
+    title = "{P}arla{S}peech-{HR} - a Freely Available {ASR} Dataset for {C}roatian Bootstrapped from the {P}arla{M}int Corpus",
+    author = "Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
+      Kor{\v{z}}inek, Danijel  and
+      Rupnik, Peter  and
+      Jazbec, Ivo-Pavao",
+    editor = "Fi{\v{s}}er, Darja  and
+      Eskevich, Maria  and
+      Lenardi{\v{c}}, Jakob  and
+      de Jong, Franciska",
+    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop ParlaCLARIN III within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
+    month = jun,
+    year = "2022",
+    address = "Marseille, France",
+    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
+    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.parlaclarin-1.16",
+    pages = "111--116",
+}
+```