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Tamil call-centre conversations, consumer surveys

Call-centre conversations in Tamil, consumer surveys, recorded on one channel with speakers labelled. 99 hours. Transcripts are time-aligned and written in Tamil script, with English words kept as spoken.

99 h
One channel
Transcribed
16 kHz · 16-bit FLAC
Transcribed in full
Fit for
  • ASR
  • Full duplex
  • Turn-taking
  • Voice agents
  • Diarisation
  • TTS

The full set, measured.

Figures measured from the delivered files.

of audio
99 h
715 conversations
audio files
715
FLAC · 16 kHz · 16-bit
transcribed words
627,353
73,573 turns
one channel
715
bandwidth
wideband
every file measured
median SNR
22.9 dB
some background

Personal data. Numbers of 4 or more digits, digit strings spoken as words, and email addresses are masked as [pii] in text and replaced by a tone in audio. First names are not masked.

Sample 1 of 4

Call-centre conversation

0:40 from a 4-minute conversation, at 1:50

Speaker 1

Male

Speaker 2

Female

0:00 / 0:40
Speaker 1Speaker 2

Speakers

Across the whole dataset

883
distinct voices
273 M · 511 F · 99 unknown
by gender

Voices are grouped from the recordings themselves, so the count is an estimate. Gender is labelled, with voice-model checks.

Voices in the sample

In the transcripts

627,353 words in 73,573 turns

  • Tamil script, English as spoken

    Words are written in the script the speaker would use; English words stay in Latin script where they were said, so code-mixing is preserved as spoken.

  • Aligned per segment, speakers labelled

    One segment per turn with its start and end time and the speaker, no word-level timestamps. Overlaps are kept as overlapping segments.

  • One tag vocabulary, in square brackets

    Anything that is not a spoken word is a bracket tag from a single list: [pii] for masked personal data, [filler] for hesitations, [overlap] where both speak at once. Plain-text fields carry no tags.

  • Personal data masked, in text and audio

    Numbers of 4 or more digits, digit strings spoken as words, and email addresses are masked as [pii] in text and replaced by a tone in audio. First names are not masked.

Delivery layouts are on formats.

Conversation profile

Across every conversation in the dataset

Talk time65% / 29%
  • Most-talking speaker 65%
  • The other 29%
Speech, overlap and silence52% / 0% / 48%
  • Speech 52%
  • Overlap 0%
  • Silence 48%
Transcript words in Latin script36%
  • Latin script 36%
  • Native script 65%
6.4 min
median conversation
715
conversations
8.9
turns a minute
105
words a minute

Audio quality

Across the whole dataset, then in the sample conversations.

Across all 715 files22.9 dB median SNR
noisysome backgroundclean

Some background across the set. Bandwidth wideband (8 kHz), no telephone-band files.

In the sample conversations47 dB (38.9 to 97.9)
noisysome backgroundclean

Quiet rooms and close microphones. Fine for any speech task, including voice models. Noise floor -71 dBFS, speech at -22.1 dBFS.

Effective bandwidth7.9 kHz
0telephone band8 kHz

Wideband speech. The full range a 16 kHz recording can hold is present.

Listener-rated quality, estimatedDNSMOS P.835
  • Background3.45
  • Speech3.03
  • Overall2.54

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What it is good for.

  • Speech recognitionFitsTime-aligned transcripts in native script, English kept as spoken. 22.9 dB median SNR across the full set, wideband (47 dB in the sample conversations).
  • Full-duplex speech to speechPartlyOne mixed channel. Turns are labelled, but overlapping speech cannot be separated, which these models need.
  • Turn-taking and endpointingPartlyTurn boundaries come from the transcript, so gaps are approximate and overlap is marked, not separated.
  • Voice agents for supportFitsAgent and customer turns in a real support flow.
  • Speaker diarisationFitsSpeaker-attributed segments across full conversations.
  • Text to speechNo22.9 dB median SNR across the full set, wideband (47 dB in the sample conversations): too much background for a voice model.

Specification

Figures marked measured were read from the audio. Anything we cannot confirm is listed under Ask us about.

id
LK-SP-TAM-002
type
speech · conversational · call centre
language
தமிழ் · Tamil · ta-IN
hours
99 h
channels
One channel, speakers labelled in the transcript
files
715 files · 715 conversationscounted across the full set
layouts
715 mono conversationcounted across the full set
audio
FLAC · 16 kHz · 16-bitmeasured across the full set
bandwidth
wideband (8 kHz)no telephone-band files
snr
22.9 dB medianacross the full set
release
v1.0
transcript
time-aligned by segment · Tamil script · delivered as JSON
speakers
883 across the full set · id and gender per speaker
pii
Numbers of 4 or more digits, digit strings spoken as words, and email addresses are masked as [pii] in text and replaced by a tone in audio. First names are not masked.
source
Recorded for the dataset
review
Every recording has a complete, segment-level transcript
personal data
Redacted
licence
Customquoted per use

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