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Dataset Card for Dataset Name
FeruzaSpeech is a read speech dataset of the Uzbek language, transcribed in both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, freely available for academic research pur- poses. It includes 60 hours of high-quality recordings from a single native female speaker from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Dataset Details
- Language(s) (NLP): Uzbek
- License: Other
Uses
Direct Use
This dataset is intended to be used for Uzbek speech-to-text purposes, especially as a supplement to existing Uzbek datasets.
Dataset Structure
FeruzaSpeech includes "Train", ”Dev” (development) and ”Test” (testing) sets. The corpus contains high-quality, single-channel, 16-bit .wav audio files, available in 16kHz for ASR.
| Subset | Duration |
|---|---|
| Train | 52.09h |
| Dev | 2.93h |
| Test | 4.08h |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
To augment the Uzbek open-source speech-to-text datasets available for research.
Source Data
Data consists of the Uzbek book, Calikusu, and BBC news articles.
Who are the source language producers?
One female native Uzbek speaker, from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, producing read speech in a perfect recording environment.
Annotation process
Recordings were read from Cyrrilic excerpts of a book and some BBC news articles, which were later converted to Latin using online tools, with some grammatical errors being manually fixed after the use of the conversion calculator. The average recording length was 16 seconds, the minimum length was 4 seconds, and the maximum length is 51 seconds.
Biases
This dataset only contains audio from a single female speaker, so male speakers are not accounted for. The speaker also has a dialect found in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, so other dialects of Uzbek are not considerde in this dataset.
Other Limitations
The data is more formal as it is sourced from a novel and news articles, which doesn't account for casual speech.