BoburAmirov/news_youtube_uzbek_speech_dataset

News Youtube Uzbek Speech Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains audio clips and their corresponding transcriptions in the Uzbek language with differenent dialects. The data was collected from publicly available news videos on YouTube. It is designed for training and evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models.

Most of the content comes from the Kunuz, Qalampir YouTube channels. The data was transcribed using Gemini 2.5 Pro and was intelligently filtered.

The audio clips are segmented and formatted for easy use with modern deep learning frameworks.

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How to Use

You can load the dataset using the 🤗 datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
ds = load_dataset("islomov/news_youtube_uzbek_speech_dataset")

# You can access the 'train' split (default)
train_dataset = ds["train"]

# Print the first example
print(train_dataset[0])
# Expected output:
# {
#   'id': '00001',
#   'audio': {'path': '...', 'array': array([...], dtype=float32), 'sampling_rate': 16000},
#   'text': 'mana shu narsaga hozir javob topishga harakat qilamiz...'
# }

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

• id (string): A unique, zero-padded numeric identifier for each audio sample (e.g., "00001").
• audio (datasets.Audio): An audio object containing the path, raw audio array, and sampling rate. The audio is standardized to a 16kHz sampling rate.
• text (string): The ground truth transcription of the audio clip.

Data Curation

The audio was sourced from Mixed dialects and casual speech focused Uzbek-language News YouTube channels. The original videos were downloaded, segmented into smaller clips, and transcribed. The transcriptions in the text column represent the ground truth for ASR tasks.

Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, please consider citing it:

@dataset{islomov_it_youtube_uzbek_speech_dataset,
  author = {Islomov},
  title = {News youtube Uzbek Speech Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  version = {1.0.0},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/islomov/news_youtube_uzbek_speech_dataset}
}

License

This dataset is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.