---
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
language:
- ms
- en
- zh
- ta
- id
---
# Malaysian STT Whisper format

Up to 15k hours annotated, we done heavy postprocessing and post-translation to improve pseudolabeled Whisper Large V3.

Also include word level timestamp.

## Postprocessing

1. Check repetitive trigrams.
2. Verify Voice Activity using Silero-VAD.
3. Verify scores using Force Alignment.

## Post-translation

We use [mesolitica/nanot5-base-malaysian-translation-v2.1](https://huggingface.co/mesolitica/nanot5-base-malaysian-translation-v2.1).

## Dataset involved

1. [Malaysian context v1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-malaya-speech-stt-train-whisper-large-v3-timestamp)
2. [Malaysian context v2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-malaysian-youtube-whisper-large-v3-timestamp)
3. [Malay audiobook](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-nusantara-large-v3-timestamp)
4. [Singaporean context](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-imda-large-v3-timestamp)
5. [Indonesian context](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-indonesian-large-v3-timestamp)
6. [Mandarin audio](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-mandarin-large-v3-timestamp)
7. [Tamil audio](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-tamil-large-v3-timestamp)
8. [Science context](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-science-large-v3-timestamp)
9. [Malay sarawak](https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/sarawakmalay-whisper-format)
10. [Scripted Malay Daily Use Speech Corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/scripted-malay-daily-use-speech-corpus-whisper-format)
11. [Malay Conversational Speech Corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/malay-conversational-speech-corpus-whisper-format)
12. [Iban](https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/iban-whisper-format)
13. [Malay dialects](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-malay-dialects-large-v3-timestamp)

### Word level timestamp

1. [Malaysian context v1](pseudolabel-malaya-whisper-word-timestamp.jsonl)

## how to prepare the dataset

```bash
wget https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2301-linux-x64.tar.xz
tar -xf 7z2301-linux-x64.tar.xz

# for Malaysian context v1
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-malaya-speech-stt-train-whisper-large-v3-timestamp/resolve/main/prepared-pseudolabel-malaya.jsonl
huggingface-cli download --repo-type dataset \
--include 'output-audio-malaya.z*' \
--local-dir './' \
mesolitica/pseudolabel-malaya-speech-stt-train-whisper-large-v3-timestamp
./7zz x output-audio-malaya.zip -y -mmt40

# Malaysian context v2
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/mesolitica/pseudolabel-malaysian-youtube-whisper-large-v3-timestamp/resolve/main/prepared-pseudolabel.jsonl
huggingface-cli download --repo-type dataset \
--include 'output-audio.z*' \
--local-dir './' \
mesolitica/pseudolabel-malaysian-youtube-whisper-large-v3-timestamp
./7zz x output-audio.zip -y -mmt40

# Malay sarawak
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/sarawakmalay-whisper-format/resolve/main/sarawakmalay.zip
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/sarawakmalay-whisper-format/resolve/main/dataset.json -O sarawakmalay.json
unzip sarawakmalay.zip

# for Scripted Malay Daily Use Speech Corpus
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/scripted-malay-daily-use-speech-corpus-whisper-format/resolve/main/scripted-malay-daily-use-speech-corpus-whisper-format.zip
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/scripted-malay-daily-use-speech-corpus-whisper-format/resolve/main/scripted-malay-daily-use-speech-corpus-whisper-format.json
unzip scripted-malay-daily-use-speech-corpus-whisper-format.zip

# Malay Conversational Speech Corpus
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/malay-conversational-speech-corpus-whisper-format/resolve/main/malay-conversational-speech-corpus-whisper-format.zip
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/malay-conversational-speech-corpus-whisper-format/resolve/main/malay-conversational-speech-corpus-whisper-format.json
unzip malay-conversational-speech-corpus-whisper-format.zip

# Iban
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/iban-whisper-format/resolve/main/iban-wav.zip
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/malaysia-ai/iban-whisper-format/resolve/main/iban-dataset.json
unzip iban-wav.zip
```

## Source code

Source code at https://github.com/mesolitica/malaysian-dataset/tree/master/speech-to-text-semisupervised/distilled-malaysian-whisper