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  **53,635 hours of transcribed speech across 113 language–region configs**, drawn from national parliaments, public broadcasters, public-domain audiobooks, and international institutions (UN, ICC, Vatican Radio).
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- Every segment consists of a human transcript, an aligned ASR transcript, character error rate (CER) between the two, a WADA-SNR estimate, and four DNSMOS-P.835 quality scores.
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- **Audio format:** OGG Opus, 24 kHz mono, ~64 kbps VBR
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- **Splits:** 95 / 5 train / test (per config, seed 42)
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- **Provenance fields:** `source`, `source_url`, `session_date`, `source_start_s`, `source_end_s`, `segment_id` on every row
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- **License:** CC BY-NC 4.0, with per-config restrictions where the upstream license is more restrictive (see [Per-config licenses](#per-config-licenses))
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- > ⚠️ **Audio embedding caveat.** Five configs (`kh_km` Khmer, `la_lo` Lao, `mm_my` Burmese, `vn_vi` Vietnamese, `cn_ug` Uyghur 3,941 hours total, all Radio Free Asia–sourced) include only metadata, transcripts, and source URLs. Audio for these configs must be downloaded separately from `source_url`. **Embedded-audio hours: ~49,694.** Total hours including metadata-only configs: 53,635.
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- Recommended starting thresholds (tune per use case):
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- | Use case | DNSMOS OVR | SNR (dB) | CER |
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- | TTS / voice cloning | ≥ 3.2 | ≥ 15 | ≤ 0.05 |
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- | Clean ASR | ≥ 2.8 | ≥ 10 | ≤ 0.10 |
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- | Robustness / noisy | — | — | ≤ 0.15 |
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- ## Why WorldSpeech
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- | Corpus | Hours | Languages | Human transcripts | Domain |
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- | MLS | ~50k | 8 | ✓ | Audiobooks |
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- | VoxPopuli | ~24k (transcribed) | 23 | Partial | Parliamentary (EU only) |
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- | GigaSpeech 2 | ~30k | 3 | ✗ | YouTube |
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- | Common Voice 17 | ~31k | 100+ | ✓ | Read prompts |
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- | FLEURS | ~1.4k | 102 | ✓ | Read (eval only) |
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- | **WorldSpeech** | **~53,635** | **79** | **✓ (+ ASR + CER)** | **Parliamentary, broadcast, audiobook** |
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- WorldSpeech combines MLS-scale hours with FLEURS-scale language coverage and per-row quality metadata that neither provides, with a deliberate focus on languages outside the EU.
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  ## Recommended use cases
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  - **Multilingual ASR pretraining and fine-tuning**, especially for languages with no MLS / VoxPopuli coverage.
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  ## Per-config licenses
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  *(See dataset card for full per-config license table.)*
 
 
 
 
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  **53,635 hours of transcribed speech across 113 language–region configs**, drawn from national parliaments, public broadcasters, public-domain audiobooks, and international institutions (UN, ICC, Vatican Radio).
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  ## Recommended use cases
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  - **Multilingual ASR pretraining and fine-tuning**, especially for languages with no MLS / VoxPopuli coverage.
 
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  ## Per-config licenses
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  *(See dataset card for full per-config license table.)*
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+ > ⚠️ **Audio embedding caveat.** Five configs (`kh_km` Khmer, `la_lo` Lao, `mm_my` Burmese, `vn_vi` Vietnamese, `cn_ug` Uyghur 3,941 hours total, all Radio Free Asia–sourced) include only metadata, transcripts, and source URLs. Audio for these configs must be downloaded separately from `source_url`. **Embedded-audio hours: ~49,694.** Total hours including metadata-only configs: 53,635.
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