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German
Dutch
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pretty_name: MultiLingual LibriSpeech
annotations_creators:
  - expert-generated
language_creators:
  - crowdsourced
  - expert-generated
language:
  - de
  - nl
  - fr
  - it
  - es
  - pt
  - pl
license:
  - cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
  - multilingual
paperswithcode_id: multilingual-librispeech
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - speech-processing
task_ids:
  - automatic-speech-recognition

Dataset Card for MultiLingual LibriSpeech

Table of Contents

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

This is a streamable version of the Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS) dataset. The data archives were restructured from the original ones from OpenSLR to make it easier to stream.

MLS dataset is a large multilingual corpus suitable for speech research. The dataset is derived from read audiobooks from LibriVox and consists of 8 languages - English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

  • automatic-speech-recognition, speaker-identification: The dataset can be used to train a model for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The model is presented with an audio file and asked to transcribe the audio file to written text. The most common evaluation metric is the word error rate (WER). The task has an active leaderboard which can be found at https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/multilingual-librispeech and ranks models based on their WER.

Languages

The dataset is derived from read audiobooks from LibriVox and consists of 8 languages - English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

A typical data point comprises the path to the audio file, usually called file and its transcription, called text. Some additional information about the speaker and the passage which contains the transcription is provided.

{'file': '10900_6473_000030.flac',
 'audio': {'path': '10900_6473_000030.flac',
  'array': array([-1.52587891e-04,  6.10351562e-05,  0.00000000e+00, ...,
          4.27246094e-04,  5.49316406e-04,  4.57763672e-04]),
  'sampling_rate': 16000},
 'text': 'więc czego chcecie odemnie spytałem wysłuchawszy tego zadziwiającego opowiadania broń nas stary człowieku broń zakrzyknęli równocześnie obaj posłowie\n',
 'speaker_id': 10900,
 'chapter_id': 6473,
 'id': '10900_6473_000030'}

Data Fields

  • file: A filename .flac format.

  • audio: A dictionary containing the audio filename, the decoded audio array, and the sampling rate. Note that when accessing the audio column: dataset[0]["audio"] the audio file is automatically decoded and resampled to dataset.features["audio"].sampling_rate. Decoding and resampling of a large number of audio files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "audio" column, i.e. dataset[0]["audio"] should always be preferred over dataset["audio"][0].

  • text: the transcription of the audio file.

  • id: unique id of the data sample.

  • speaker_id: unique id of the speaker. The same speaker id can be found for multiple data samples.

  • chapter_id: id of the audiobook chapter which includes the transcription.

Data Splits

Train Train.9h Train.1h Dev Test
german 469942 2194 241 3469 3394
dutch 374287 2153 234 3095 3075
french 258213 2167 241 2416 2426
spanish 220701 2110 233 2408 2385
italian 59623 2173 240 1248 1262
portuguese 37533 2116 236 826 871
polish 25043 2173 238 512 520

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

[Needs More Information]

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[Needs More Information]

Who are the source language producers?

[Needs More Information]

Annotations

Annotation process

[Needs More Information]

Who are the annotators?

[Needs More Information]

Personal and Sensitive Information

The dataset consists of people who have donated their voice online. You agree to not attempt to determine the identity of speakers in this dataset.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[Needs More Information]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

[Needs More Information]

Licensing Information

Public Domain, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0)

Citation Information 

@article{Pratap2020MLSAL,
  title={MLS: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Research},
  author={Vineel Pratap and Qiantong Xu and Anuroop Sriram and Gabriel Synnaeve and Ronan Collobert},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2012.03411}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @patrickvonplaten and @polinaeterna for adding this dataset.