--- license: cc-by-nc-4.0 language: - en - de - es - fr - pt - ru - tr - vi - ja - it - gu - kn - ml - mr - or - te - ar - uk - be - zh - pl - sw - ha - yo - zu - am - ig multilinguality: - multilingual task_categories: - automatic-speech-recognition - audio-classification - text-to-speech tags: - voice-ai - speech-data - accent - emotion - african-languages - multilingual - asr - tts - conversational-ai - real-world-audio - crowdsourced pretty_name: "πŸŽ™οΈ Silencio Voice AI Sample Dataset" dataset_info: features: - name: file_name dtype: string - name: id dtype: int64 - name: gender dtype: string - name: ethnicity dtype: string - name: occupation dtype: string - name: country_code dtype: string - name: birth_place dtype: string - name: mother_tongue dtype: string - name: dialect dtype: string - name: year_of_birth dtype: int64 - name: years_at_birth_place dtype: int64 - name: languages_data dtype: string - name: os dtype: string - name: device dtype: string - name: browser dtype: string - name: duration dtype: float64 - name: emotions dtype: string - name: language dtype: string - name: location dtype: string - name: noise_sources dtype: string - name: script_id dtype: int64 - name: type_of_script dtype: string - name: script dtype: string - name: transcript dtype: string - name: speaker_id dtype: string configs: - config_name: spanish_mexico data_files: - split: free_speech path: spanish_mexico/free_speech/** - split: keywords path: spanish_mexico/keywords/** - split: monologues path: spanish_mexico/monologues/** - config_name: english_china data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_china/free_speech/** - split: keywords path: english_china/keywords/** - split: monologues path: english_china/monologues/** - config_name: english_nigeria data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_nigeria/free_speech/** - split: keywords path: english_nigeria/keywords/** - split: monologues path: english_nigeria/monologues/** - config_name: english_united_states data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_united_states/free_speech/** - split: keywords path: english_united_states/keywords/** - split: monologues path: english_united_states/monologues/** - config_name: german_germany data_files: - split: free_speech path: german_germany/free_speech/** - split: keywords path: german_germany/keywords/** - split: monologues path: german_germany/monologues/** - config_name: english_algeria data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_algeria/free_speech/** - config_name: english_australia data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_australia/free_speech/** - config_name: english_belarus data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_belarus/free_speech/** - config_name: english_egypt data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_egypt/free_speech/** - config_name: english_french_speaking data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_french_speaking/free_speech/** - config_name: english_haiti data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_haiti/free_speech/** - config_name: english_ireland data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_ireland/free_speech/** - config_name: english_jamaica data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_jamaica/free_speech/** - config_name: english_kenya data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_kenya/free_speech/** - config_name: english_mandarin data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_mandarin/free_speech/** - config_name: english_medical data_files: - split: medical path: english_medical/medical/** - config_name: english_pakistan data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_pakistan/free_speech/** - config_name: english_poland data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_poland/free_speech/** - config_name: english_russia data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_russia/free_speech/** - config_name: english_south_africa data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_south_africa/free_speech/** - config_name: english_uganda data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_uganda/free_speech/** - config_name: english_united_kingdom data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_united_kingdom/free_speech/** - config_name: english_ukraine data_files: - split: free_speech path: english_ukraine/free_speech/** - config_name: french_canada data_files: - split: free_speech path: french_canada/free_speech/** - config_name: french_global data_files: - split: free_speech path: french_global/free_speech/** - config_name: global_medical data_files: - split: medical path: global_medical/medical/** - config_name: gujarati_india data_files: - split: free_speech path: gujarati_india/free_speech/** - config_name: italian_italy data_files: - split: free_speech path: italian_italy/free_speech/** - config_name: japanese_japan data_files: - split: free_speech path: japanese_japan/free_speech/** - config_name: kannada_india data_files: - split: free_speech path: kannada_india/free_speech/** - config_name: malayalam_india data_files: - split: free_speech path: malayalam_india/free_speech/** - config_name: mandarin_chinese_china data_files: - split: free_speech path: mandarin_chinese_china/free_speech/** - config_name: marathi_india data_files: - split: free_speech path: marathi_india/free_speech/** - config_name: odia_india data_files: - split: free_speech path: odia_india/free_speech/** - config_name: portuguese_brazil data_files: - split: free_speech path: portuguese_brazil/free_speech/** - config_name: russian_russia data_files: - split: free_speech path: russian_russia/free_speech/** - config_name: telugu_india data_files: - split: free_speech path: telugu_india/free_speech/** - config_name: turkish_turkey data_files: - split: free_speech path: turkish_turkey/free_speech/** - split: monologues path: turkish_turkey/monologues/** - config_name: vietnamese_vietnam data_files: - split: monologues path: vietnamese_vietnam/monologues/** - config_name: amharic_ethiopia data_files: - split: free_speech path: amharic_ethiopia/free_speech/** - config_name: hausa_nigeria data_files: - split: free_speech path: hausa_nigeria/free_speech/** - config_name: igbo_nigeria data_files: - split: free_speech path: igbo_nigeria/free_speech/** - config_name: yoruba_nigeria data_files: - split: free_speech path: yoruba_nigeria/free_speech/** - config_name: conversational_english data_files: - split: conversations path: conversational_english/conversations/** size_categories: - 1K

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Silencio data is collected **in the wild** from a massive, opt-in community (**2M+ contributors** across **180+ countries**), giving you: - βœ… **Real-world accents, dialects, devices, and environments** that lab or scraped datasets don't capture - βœ… **Explicit, traceable consent** β€” every recording tied to verified opt-in (GDPR/CCPA compliant) - βœ… **Privacy-first pipelines** β€” anonymized, PII hashed, reduced legal risk for enterprise - βœ… **Rapid scaling** into hard-to-source languages and niches ## πŸ“Š Full Data Availability | Category | Available | Top Languages | |----------|-----------|---------------| | **African Languages** | 25,000+ hrs | Swahili (9.7k), Nigerian English (8.1k), Hausa, Yoruba, Zulu | | **Asian Languages** | 15,000+ hrs | Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese | | **European Languages** | 20,000+ hrs | German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Polish | | **Emotional Speech** | 5,000+ hrs | Joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, neutral | | **Multi-Speaker** | 10,000+ hrs | Overlapping speech, turn-taking, interruptions | | **Conversational** | 30,000+ hrs | Natural dialogue, disfluencies, backchannels | **Custom requests?** We can source virtually any language, accent, or demographic at scale. --- ## 🎯 This Sample Dataset This sample covers **43 language–region configs** across **20+ languages** demonstrating our data quality: ### Accented English | Config | Accent/Region | Splits | Samples | |--------|---------------|--------|---------| | `english_algeria` | Algerian | free_speech | 21 | | `english_australia` | Australian | free_speech | 25 | | `english_belarus` | Belarusian | free_speech | 21 | | `english_china` | Mandarin-influenced | free_speech, keywords, monologues | 75 | | `english_egypt` | Egyptian | free_speech | 25 | | `english_french_speaking` | French-speaking countries | free_speech | 21 | | `english_haiti` | Haitian | free_speech | 21 | | `english_ireland` | Irish | free_speech | 21 | | `english_jamaica` | Jamaican | free_speech | 25 | | `english_kenya` | Kenyan | free_speech | 25 | | `english_mandarin` | Mandarin-influenced (Global) | free_speech | 25 | | `english_nigeria` | Nigerian | free_speech, keywords, monologues | 75 | | `english_pakistan` | Pakistani | free_speech | 25 | | `english_poland` | Polish | free_speech | 25 | | `english_russia` | Russian | free_speech | 25 | | `english_south_africa` | South African | free_speech | 17 | | `english_uganda` | Ugandan | free_speech | 25 | | `english_united_kingdom` | British | free_speech | 25 | | `english_united_states` | American | free_speech, keywords, monologues | 75 | | `english_ukraine` | Ukrainian | free_speech | 25 | ### African Languages | Config | Language | Region | Splits | Samples | |--------|----------|--------|--------|---------| | `amharic_ethiopia` | Amharic | Ethiopia | free_speech | 51 | | `hausa_nigeria` | Hausa | Nigeria | free_speech | 42 | | `igbo_nigeria` | Igbo | Nigeria | free_speech | 36 | | `yoruba_nigeria` | Yoruba | Nigeria | free_speech | 39 | ### Other Languages | Config | Language | Region | Splits | Samples | |--------|----------|--------|--------|---------| | `french_canada` | French | Canada | free_speech | 25 | | `french_global` | French | Global | free_speech | 25 | | `german_germany` | German | Germany | free_speech, keywords, monologues | 75 | | `gujarati_india` | Gujarati | India | free_speech | 18 | | `italian_italy` | Italian | Italy | free_speech | 25 | | `japanese_japan` | Japanese | Japan | free_speech | 25 | | `kannada_india` | Kannada | India | free_speech | 25 | | `malayalam_india` | Malayalam | India | free_speech | 25 | | `mandarin_chinese_china` | Mandarin | China | free_speech | 25 | | `marathi_india` | Marathi | India | free_speech | 25 | | `odia_india` | Odia | India | free_speech | 21 | | `portuguese_brazil` | Portuguese | Brazil | free_speech | 25 | | `russian_russia` | Russian | Russia | free_speech | 25 | | `spanish_mexico` | Spanish | Mexico | free_speech, keywords, monologues | 56 | | `telugu_india` | Telugu | India | free_speech | 25 | | `turkish_turkey` | Turkish | Turkey | free_speech, monologues | 32 | | `vietnamese_vietnam` | Vietnamese | Vietnam | monologues | 15 | ### Medical Domain | Config | Language | Splits | Samples | |--------|----------|--------|---------| | `english_medical` | English | medical | 8 | | `global_medical` | Multilingual (EN/ES/DE) | medical | 25 | ### Conversational | Config | Language | Splits | Meetings | Participants | Audio Columns | |--------|----------|--------|----------|--------------|---------------| | `conversational_english` | English | conversations | 4 | 8 | speaker_audio, single_channel, multi_channel | > Each row contains 3 audio files (individual speaker, full meeting single-channel, full meeting multi-channel) plus word-level meeting transcripts with speaker turns and timestamps. ## πŸš€ Quick Start ```python from datasets import load_dataset # Load Nigerian English samples ds = load_dataset("SilencioNetwork/complete-voiceai-speech-dataset", "english_nigeria") # Access different speech types free_speech = ds['free_speech'] keywords = ds['keywords'] monologues = ds['monologues'] # Process a sample for sample in free_speech: audio = sample['audio'] transcript = sample['transcript'] speaker_id = sample['speaker_id'] emotion = sample['emotions'] print(f"Speaker {speaker_id}: {transcript[:50]}...") ``` ## 🎀 Speech Types | Type | Description | Use Cases | |------|-------------|-----------| | `free_speech` | Unscripted speech on provided topics | Conversational AI, dialogue systems | | `keywords` | Short isolated phrases/terms | Wake word detection, command recognition | | `monologues` | Longer scripted passages | TTS training, ASR benchmarking | ## πŸ“‹ Rich Metadata Every recording includes: - **Speaker demographics**: gender, ethnicity, occupation, birth year, birth place - **Linguistic info**: mother tongue, dialect, language proficiency data - **Recording context**: device, OS, browser, location, background noise - **Content**: script, Whisper-generated transcript, emotion labels - **Technical**: duration, 48kHz WAV format ## 🎯 Ideal For - πŸ—£οΈ **ASR training** β€” accent-robust speech recognition - πŸ”Š **TTS development** β€” diverse voice synthesis - 😊 **Emotion recognition** β€” labeled emotional speech - 🌍 **Multilingual models** β€” 100+ languages available - πŸŽ™οΈ **Speaker verification** β€” unique speaker embeddings - πŸ“Š **Benchmarking** β€” real-world robustness testing ## βš–οΈ License **CC BY-NC 4.0** β€” Free for research and non-commercial use. For **commercial licensing**, contact [sofia@silencioai.com](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com). ## πŸ“§ Get More Data **Need the full corpus?** This sample represents <0.01% of our available data. | What You Need | We Can Provide | |---------------|----------------| | Specific language/accent | βœ… 100+ languages available | | Emotional speech | βœ… 5,000+ hours labeled | | Multi-speaker/overlapping | βœ… 10,000+ hours | | Custom demographics | βœ… Age, gender, occupation targeting | | Bulk volume | βœ… 100,000+ hours total | **πŸ“§ Email:** [sofia@silencioai.com](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com) **🌐 Website:** [silencioai.com](https://www.silencioai.com) --- ## Citation ```bibtex @dataset{silencio_network_speech_2025, title = {Silencio Network Voice AI Speech Corpus}, author = {Silencio Network}, year = {2025}, publisher = {Hugging Face}, license = {CC BY-NC 4.0} } ```