Datasets:
language:
- eng
pretty_name: Unsupervised Peoples Speech
tags:
- audio
- unsupervised
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- audio-classification
task_ids:
- audio-language-identification
viewer: false
Dataset Card for Unsupervised Peoples Speech
Table of Contents
- Dataset Card for Unuspervised Peoples Speech
- Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Source Data
- [Annotations] (#annotations)
- [Annotation Process] (#annotation-process)
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Point of Contact: [email protected]
Dataset Summary
The Unsupervised Peoples Speech Dataset is a compilation of audiofiles extracted from Archive.org that is licensed for academic and commercial usage under CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses. It includes more than one million hours of audio with a diverse set of speakers.
Relevant Statistics
Duration Distribution
Most of the audios range between 1 and 10 minutes in length, with only 14 of them exceeding the 100 hour mark.
Sample Rates
99% of the audio in the dataset has a 44.1Khz sample rate, and the remaining audio varies from the more common 16Khz, 24Khz and 48 Khz to custom sample rates.
Dataset Structure
Audio folders
Folders with the raw audio. We split this into two directories because Hugging Face does not support more than 10,000 files in a single directory.
Dataset Creation
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
Data was downloaded via the archive.org API. No data inference was done.
Preprocessing
No preprocessing was done.
Annotations
Annotation process
No manual annotation is done. We download only source audio.
In particular, there is no "forced alignment" or "segmentation" done on this dataset.
Personal and Sensitive Information
Several of our sources are legal and government proceedings, spoken stories, speeches, and so on. Given that these were intended as public documents and licensed as such, it is natural that the involved individuals are aware of this.
Considerations for Using the Data
Discussion of Biases
Our data is downloaded from archive.org. As such, the data is biased towards whatever users decide to upload there.
Almost all of our data is American accented English.
Additional Information
Licensing Information
The source data contains data under CC-BY-SA and CC-BY licenses.
We license this dataset under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Citation Information
Please cite
@article{USP,
author={Daniel Galvez and
Ryan Hileman and
Rafael Mosquera and
Juan Ciro and
Kurt Bollacker and
Peter Mattson and
David Kanter},
title = {Unsupervised People's Speech (The Million Hour Audio Dataset)},
year = {2023},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLCommons/peoples_speech},
}