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Tamil speech recognition utterances

Tamil speech recognition data: 157,231 single-speaker utterance clips of conversational Tamil, call-centre and everyday, each with its own time-aligned transcript in Tamil script, English words kept as spoken. 201 hours of audio, 1,748,023 transcribed words.

201 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
201 h
157,231 utterances
audio files
157,231
FLAC · 16 kHz · 16-bit
transcribed words
1.7 M
157,231 turns

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 · 6 of 151 clips

Utterance clips, as delivered

One speaker, one utterance, its transcript beneath. Press play on any line.

  1. ஆ, சொல்லுங்க, அங்கேருந்து தான் call பண்றீங்களா?

    Female3.3 s70 dB SNR

  2. OK hair வந்து சிக்கு இல்லாம easy ஆ சீவரதுக்கு அப்படி பாக்கும்போது

    Male4.8 s63 dB SNR

  3. OK mam. வேற எதாச்சும் facilities இருக்குதா?

    Female3.9 s61 dB SNR

  4. OK OK குடுப்பாங்க நா சொல்ற நா சொல்ற நீங்க கேட்டுகோங்கோ அவங்க குடுப்பாங்க.

    Male3.7 s58 dB SNR

  5. that means, for example, some people stay OK, we give you ten to peace discount but that is like ten days rupees discount on the next product device. So that is the corruption

    Male11.5 s57 dB SNR

  6. ஆ, அந்த மாதிரி model ன்னா sudden mam. actual லா sudden ஆ வந்துட்டு நீங்க வந்து இந்த long days க்கு போகும்போது இந்த luggage எல்லாம் கொண்டு போறதுக்கு நிறைய lossage இருக்குமா? இல்லை உங்களுக்கு? இல்லை இப்படி.

    Male10.7 s56 dB SNR

Speakers

Across the whole dataset

1,236
distinct voices
316 M · 784 F · 136 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

1,748,023 words across 157,231 utterances

  • 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.

  • One transcript per clip

    Each clip carries its own transcript with its start and end time in the source recording, its speaker id and gender. No word-level timestamps.

  • 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.

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What it is good for.

  • Speech recognitionFitsBuilt for it: 157,231 utterance clips, each with its own time-aligned transcript, noise left as recorded.
  • Full-duplex speech to speechNoClips are single utterances; the conversation timing is not in this dataset.
  • Turn-takingNoNo turn structure: each clip is one utterance.
  • Voice agentsPartlyGood for the recogniser in an agent; the dialogue itself is not here.
  • DiarisationNoEach clip holds one speaker.
  • Text to speechNoConversational call audio, not studio voice.

Specification

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id
LK-SP-TAM-004
type
speech · utterances for ASR · call centre and general
language
தமிழ் · Tamil · ta-IN
hours
201 h
channels
One channel, one speaker per clip
files
157,231 files · 157,231 utterancescounted across the full set
audio
FLAC · 16 kHz · 16-bitmeasured across the full set
release
v1.0
transcript
time-aligned by segment · Tamil script
speakers
1,236 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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