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README.md

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 ---
-license: other
-multilinguality:
-- multilingual
-viewer: true
+license: cc-by-nc-4.0
+task_categories:
+  - automatic-speech-recognition
+  - text-to-speech
+  - audio-classification
+language:
+  - af
+  - am
+  - ar
+  - az
+  - be
+  - bn
+  - ca
+  - ckb
+  - cnr
+  - crs
+  - cs
+  - de
+  - dv
+  - el
+  - en
+  - eo
+  - es
+  - fa
+  - fr
+  - ga
+  - grc
+  - ha
+  - he
+  - hi
+  - hu
+  - hy
+  - id
+  - ig
+  - iu
+  - ja
+  - ka
+  - kk
+  - km
+  - ko
+  - la
+  - lb
+  - lo
+  - mfe
+  - mi
+  - ml
+  - mn
+  - mr
+  - ms
+  - my
+  - ne
+  - nl
+  - nr
+  - nso
+  - om
+  - pa
+  - pl
+  - pt
+  - rm
+  - ro
+  - ru
+  - rw
+  - si
+  - sm
+  - sn
+  - sq
+  - ss
+  - st
+  - sv
+  - sw
+  - ta
+  - th
+  - ti
+  - tl
+  - tn
+  - tr
+  - ts
+  - ug
+  - uz
+  - ve
+  - vi
+  - xh
+  - yue
+  - zh
+  - zu
+size_categories:
+  - 10M<n<100M
+pretty_name: WorldSpeech
+tags:
+  - speech
+  - multilingual
+  - low-resource
+  - parliamentary
+  - asr
+  - tts
+  - audio
 configs:
 - config_name: af_za
   data_files:
@@ -674,29 +766,74 @@ configs:
 
 # WorldSpeech
 
-**Highly multilingual, large-scale speech corpus with ground-truth aligned transcripts assembled from public archives such as national parliaments, public broadcasters, and public-domain audiobooks across 107 language-country configs, with strong non-European and low-resource coverage.**
+**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). Strong non-European and low-resource coverage across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
 
-Every segment contains a verified *human* transcript, an ASR transcript, the CER between them, a WADA-SNR estimate, and four DNSMOS-P.835 quality scores.
+Every segment carries a verified human transcript, an aligned ASR transcript, character error rate between the two, a WADA-SNR estimate, and four DNSMOS-P.835 quality scores — enough metadata to filter for TTS-grade, ASR-grade, or noise-robustness training without re-running quality estimation yourself.
 
-Audio is OGG Opus 24 kHz mono ~64 kbps VBR. Splits are 95/5, full provenance (`source`, `source_url`, `session_date`, `source_start_s`/`source_end_s`, `segment_id`) is preserved on every row.
+**Audio format:** OGG Opus, 24 kHz mono, ~64 kbps VBR
+**Splits:** 95 / 5 train / test (per config, seed 42)
+**Provenance fields:** `source`, `source_url`, `session_date`, `source_start_s`, `source_end_s`, `segment_id` on every row
+**License:** CC BY-NC 4.0, with per-config restrictions where the upstream license is more restrictive (see [Per-config licenses](#per-config-licenses))
 
-## Loading
+> ⚠️ **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.
+
+---
+
+## Dataset License
+
+WorldSpeech is released under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Individual source licenses apply and are listed in the [Per-config licenses](#per-config-licenses) table. Where a source license is more restrictive than CC BY-NC 4.0, the more restrictive terms govern that config.
+
+---
+
+## At a glance
+
+|                                       |                |
+| ------------------------------------- | -------------- |
+| Total hours (incl. metadata-only)     | 53,635      |
+| Embedded-audio hours                  | ~49,694     |
+| Configs (language × region)           | 113            |
+| Distinct languages                    | 79              |
+| Languages with ≥ 100 h               | 41              |
+| Languages with < 10 h                | 11              |
+| Median DNSMOS-P.835 OVR (per config)  | 2.84        |
+| Sample rate                           | 24 kHz         |
+| Codec                                 | OGG Opus       |
+
+### Coverage by region (hours)
+
+| Region             | Hours         | Configs |
+| ------------------ | ------------- | ------- |
+| Europe | 23,364 | 26 |
+| East/SE Asia | 11,623 | 13 |
+| Latin America | 7,573 | 11 |
+| Sub-Saharan Africa | 3,493 | 29 |
+| South Asia | 2,098 | 9 |
+| MENA | 2,060 | 13 |
+| Pacific/Oceania | 1,095 | 5 |
+| Caucasus | 1,934 | 4 |
+| Central Asia | 394 | 3 |
+
+---
+
+## How to use
 
 ```python
 from datasets import load_dataset, Audio
 
 ds = load_dataset("AAdonis/WorldSpeech", "nl_nl", split="train")
-ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=24000))  # decodes Opus -> {"array": np.ndarray, "sampling_rate": 24000}
+ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=24000))
 
 row = ds[0]
-wav = row["audio"]["array"]            # 1-D float numpy array, 24 kHz mono
-sr  = row["audio"]["sampling_rate"]    # 24000
+wav    = row["audio"]["array"]        # 1-D float32 numpy array, 24 kHz mono
+sr     = row["audio"]["sampling_rate"] # 24000
 text   = row["human_transcript"]
 snr    = row["snr"]
 dnsmos = row["dnsmos_ovr"]
-print(len(wav)/sr, "sec", text[:60], snr, dnsmos)
+```
+
+### Streaming
 
-# Streaming (no full download):
+```python
 ds = load_dataset("AAdonis/WorldSpeech", "nl_nl", split="train", streaming=True)
 ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=24000))
 for row in ds:
@@ -704,240 +841,253 @@ for row in ds:
     break
 ```
 
+### Filtering for TTS-grade subset
+
+```python
+ds_tts = ds.filter(lambda row:
+    row["dnsmos_ovr"] >= 3.2 and
+    row["snr"]        >= 15.0 and
+    row["cer"]        <= 0.05 and
+    1.0 <= row["duration"] <= 20.0
+)
+```
+
+Recommended starting thresholds (tune per use case):
+
+| Use case             | DNSMOS OVR | SNR (dB) | CER    |
+| -------------------- | ---------- | -------- | ------ |
+| TTS / voice cloning  | ≥ 3.2      | ≥ 15     | ≤ 0.05 |
+| Clean ASR            | ≥ 2.8      | ≥ 10     | ≤ 0.10 |
+| Robustness / noisy   | —          | —        | ≤ 0.15 |
+
+---
+
+## Schema
+
+| Field              | Type      | Description |
+| ------------------ | --------- | ----------- |
+| `audio`            | `Audio`   | OGG Opus decoded to `{"array": np.float32[N], "sampling_rate": 24000}`. **Null for metadata-only configs.** |
+| `human_transcript` | `string`  | Verified human-written transcript |
+| `asr_transcript`   | `string`  | ASR output used for alignment and CER computation |
+| `cer`              | `float32` | Character error rate between `asr_transcript` and `human_transcript` |
+| `snr`              | `float32` | WADA-SNR estimate, dB |
+| `dnsmos_sig`       | `float32` | DNSMOS-P.835 signal quality |
+| `dnsmos_bak`       | `float32` | DNSMOS-P.835 background noise |
+| `dnsmos_ovr`       | `float32` | DNSMOS-P.835 overall MOS |
+| `dnsmos_p808`      | `float32` | DNSMOS-P.808 MOS |
+| `duration`         | `float32` | Segment duration in seconds |
+| `source`           | `string`  | Source identifier (e.g. `parliament_nl`, `librivox`, `voa_hausa`) |
+| `source_url`       | `string`  | Direct URL to the upstream recording |
+| `source_start_s`   | `float32` | Start offset within the source recording (seconds) |
+| `source_end_s`     | `float32` | End offset within the source recording (seconds) |
+| `session_date`     | `string`  | ISO-8601 date of the original recording |
+| `segment_id`       | `string`  | Stable unique identifier for this segment |
+| `language`         | `string`  | BCP-47 language tag |
+| `country`          | `string`  | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (or `un` / `va` for international) |
+
+---
+
+## Why WorldSpeech
+
+| Corpus           | Hours        | Languages | Human transcripts | Domain                     |
+| ---------------- | ------------ | --------- | ----------------- | -------------------------- |
+| MLS              | ~50k         | 8         | ✓                 | Audiobooks                 |
+| VoxPopuli        | ~24k (transcribed) | 23  | Partial           | Parliamentary (EU only)    |
+| GigaSpeech 2     | ~30k         | 3         | ✗                 | YouTube                    |
+| Common Voice 17  | ~31k         | 100+      | ✓                 | Read prompts               |
+| FLEURS           | ~1.4k        | 102       | ✓                 | Read (eval only)           |
+| **WorldSpeech**  | **~53,635** | **79** | **✓ (+ ASR + CER)** | **Parliamentary, broadcast, audiobook** |
+
+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.
+
+---
+
+## Recommended use cases
+
+- **Multilingual ASR pretraining and fine-tuning**, especially for languages with no MLS / VoxPopuli coverage.
+- **Multilingual TTS pretraining**, after filtering on DNSMOS / SNR / CER.
+- **Long-form / streaming ASR**, since `source_start_s` / `source_end_s` allow reconstruction of original session context.
+- **Speech enhancement**, using the wide DNSMOS distribution as an in-distribution quality range.
+
+---
+
+## Known limitations
+
+- **Domain skew toward formal speech.** Parliamentary, broadcast, and read-audiobook content dominate. Conversational and spontaneous speech are under-represented.
+- **Speaker imbalance.** Several configs are dominated by a small number of frequent speakers (e.g. regular parliamentary members, prolific audiobook narrators). No per-speaker labels are provided.
+- **Alignment uncertainty.** Human transcripts are aligned to audio via ASR; segment boundaries inherit ASR alignment error. The `cer` field gives a per-segment estimate.
+- **Variable audio quality.** Median DNSMOS OVR is 2.84, with substantial variance. Filter aggressively for TTS-grade work.
+- **11 languages have < 10 hours** (`grc`, `mi`, `ml`, `mr`, `nr`, `nso`, and others). Treat these as evaluation or token-coverage signal rather than training data.
+- **Five RFA configs are metadata-only.** See the embedding caveat at the top.
+
+---
+
+## Ethical considerations
+
+Sources are public records (parliaments, courts, broadcasters, public-domain audiobooks). Speakers in parliamentary and judicial recordings are public figures speaking in their official capacity. No private conversations, medical recordings, or non-consensual material are included. Some configs (UN, ICC, Vatican Radio, RFA, RFE/RL) carry non-commercial-only terms — flagged in the Per-config licenses table.
+
+If you identify content that should not have been included, open an issue and we will action takedowns within 30 days.
+
+---
+
 ## Configs
 
-| Config | Country | Language | Hours | Avg DNSMOS OVR |
-|---|---|---|---|---|
-| `af_za` | South Africa | Afrikaans/English | 20.2 | 2.79 |
-| `am_et` | Ethiopia | Amharic | 39.6 | 3.11 |
-| `am_hy` | Armenia | Armenian | 283.3 | 2.39 |
-| `ar_bh` | Bahrain | Arabic | 219.5 | 2.72 |
-| `ar_dz` | Algeria | Arabic | 92.9 | 2.66 |
-| `ar_eg` | Egypt | Arabic | 22.0 | 2.86 |
-| `ar_iq` | Iraq | Arabic | 291.9 | 2.94 |
-| `ar_kw` | Kuwait | Arabic | 175.5 | 2.82 |
-| `ar_ma` | Morocco | Arabic | 78.3 | 2.68 |
-| `ar_sa` | Saudi Arabia | Arabic | 6.1 | 2.01 |
-| `ar_tn` | Tunisia | Arabic | 50.9 | 2.74 |
-| `ar_un` | United Nations | Arabic | 11.1 | 3.03 |
-| `az_az` | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijani | 305.4 | 2.76 |
-| `be_by` | Belarus | Belarusian | 24.2 | 3.10 |
-| `bn_bd` | Bangladesh | Bengali | 46.1 | 3.03 |
-| `ckb_iq` | Iraq | Sorani Kurdish | 35.3 | 2.93 |
-| `cnr_me` | Montenegro | Montenegrin | 47.9 | 2.98 |
-| `crs_sc` | Seychelles | Kreol Seselwa | 1602.3 | 3.15 |
-| `cs_cz` | Czech Republic | Czech | 2689.5 | 2.87 |
-| `cz_cs` | Czechia | Czech | 2230.4 | 2.77 |
-| `de_at` | Austria | German | 1077.5 | 2.93 |
-| `dv_mv` | Maldives | Dhivehi | 20.0 | 2.92 |
-| `el_cy` | Cyprus | Greek | 394.4 | 2.90 |
-| `el_gr` | Greece | Greek | 35.9 | 3.37 |
+113 configs total, sorted by hours descending.
+
+<details>
+<summary><b>Click to expand full configs table</b></summary>
+
+| Config | Country | Language | Hours | DNSMOS OVR |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `nl_nl` | Netherlands | Dutch | 3,692.6 | 3.00 |
+| `pl_pl` | Poland | Polish | 2,731.9 | 2.70 |
+| `cs_cz` | Czech Republic | Czech | 2,689.5 | 2.87 |
+| `cz_cs` | Czechia | Czech | 2,230.4 | 2.77 |
+| `es_es` | Spain | Spanish | 2,097.4 | 2.52 |
+| `yue_hk` | Hong Kong | Cantonese | 1,943.5 | 3.02 |
+| `lb_lu` | Luxembourg | Luxembourgish | 1,805.3 | 2.87 |
+| `pt_br` | Brazil | Portuguese | 1,763.5 | 2.68 |
+| `es_cl` | Chile | Spanish | 1,740.5 | 2.94 |
+| `hi_in` | India | Hindi | 1,608.8 | 2.66 |
+| `crs_sc` | Seychelles | Kreol Seselwa | 1,602.3 | 3.15 |
+| `ru_ru` | Russia | Russian | 1,534.2 | 3.03 |
+| `zh_tw` | Taiwan | Mandarin | 1,482.1 | 2.47 |
+| `ja_jp` | Japan | Japanese | 1,387.2 | 2.86 |
+| `hu_hu` | Hungary | Hungarian | 1,350.1 | 2.96 |
+| `kh_km` *(metadata only)* | Cambodia | Khmer | 1,323.0 | 2.85 |
+| `ko_kr` | South Korea | Korean | 1,278.9 | 3.08 |
+| `hy_am` | Armenia | Armenian | 1,138.9 | 2.59 |
+| `fr_ca` | Canada | French | 1,105.6 | 2.93 |
+| `de_at` | Austria | German | 1,077.5 | 2.93 |
+| `ro_md` | Moldova | Romanian | 1,059.5 | 2.66 |
+| `tr_tr` | Turkey | Turkish | 1,007.6 | 2.22 |
+| `nl_be` | Belgium | Dutch (Flemish) | 960.5 | 2.59 |
+| `es_mx` | Mexico | Spanish | 901.6 | 2.63 |
+| `es_uy` | Uruguay | Spanish | 894.4 | 2.94 |
+| `mm_my` *(metadata only)* | Myanmar | Burmese | 865.0 | 2.88 |
+| `th_th` | Thailand | Thai | 845.3 | 3.18 |
+| `la_lo` *(metadata only)* | Laos | Lao | 827.0 | 2.82 |
+| `vn_vi` *(metadata only)* | Vietnam | Vietnamese | 726.0 | 2.90 |
+| `sw_tz` | Tanzania | Swahili | 710.4 | 2.56 |
+| `ro_ro` | Romania | Romanian | 686.3 | 2.75 |
 | `en_au` | Australia | English | 568.4 | 3.02 |
-| `en_jm` | Jamaica | English | 9.6 | 2.52 |
-| `en_ke` | Kenya | English | 170.0 | 2.97 |
 | `en_nz` | New Zealand | English | 435.7 | 2.68 |
-| `en_sl` | Sierra Leone | English | 102.4 | 2.70 |
+| `ms_my` | Malaysia | Malay | 432.0 | 2.91 |
+| `el_cy` | Cyprus | Greek | 394.4 | 2.90 |
+| `es_pe` | Peru | Spanish | 387.4 | 2.63 |
+| `az_az` | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijani | 305.4 | 2.76 |
+| `ar_iq` | Iraq | Arabic | 291.9 | 2.94 |
 | `en_zm` | Zambia | English | 291.6 | 2.70 |
-| `eo` | (international) | Esperanto | 15.0 | 3.27 |
-| `en_za` | South Africa | English (South African) | 142.9 | 2.95 |
+| `am_hy` | Armenia | Armenian | 283.3 | 2.39 |
+| `sq_al` | Albania | Albanian | 257.4 | 2.69 |
 | `es_ar` | Argentina | Spanish | 251.7 | 2.78 |
-| `es_cl` | Chile | Spanish | 1740.5 | 2.94 |
-| `es_co` | Colombia | Spanish | 156.8 | 2.75 |
-| `es_es` | Spain | Spanish | 2097.4 | 2.52 |
-| `ca_es` | Spain | Catalan | 168.7 | 2.99 |
-| `es_mx` | Mexico | Spanish | 901.6 | 2.63 |
-| `es_pe` | Peru | Spanish | 387.4 | 2.63 |
 | `es_pr` | Puerto Rico | Spanish | 228.6 | 2.73 |
+| `ar_bh` | Bahrain | Arabic | 219.5 | 2.72 |
+| `tl_ph` | Philippines | Tagalog | 219.0 | 2.88 |
+| `ka_ge` | Georgia | Georgian | 206.4 | 2.37 |
+| `ta_lk` | Sri Lanka | Tamil | 204.0 | 2.80 |
+| `cn_ug` *(metadata only)* | China | Uyghur | 200.0 | 2.86 |
+| `mn_mn` | Mongolia | Mongolian | 181.0 | 2.80 |
+| `kk_kz` | Kazakhstan | Kazakh | 179.0 | 2.84 |
+| `sq_xk` | Kosovo | Albanian | 176.6 | 2.69 |
+| `ar_kw` | Kuwait | Arabic | 175.5 | 2.82 |
+| `en_ke` | Kenya | English | 170.0 | 2.97 |
+| `ca_es` | Spain | Catalan | 168.7 | 2.99 |
+| `rm_ch` | Switzerland | Romansh | 163.1 | 3.14 |
+| `es_co` | Colombia | Spanish | 156.8 | 2.75 |
+| `si_lk` | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 154.0 | 2.40 |
+| `en_za` | South Africa | English (SA) | 142.9 | 2.95 |
 | `es_py` | Paraguay | Spanish | 133.2 | 3.14 |
-| `es_uy` | Uruguay | Spanish | 894.4 | 2.94 |
-| `fa_ir` | Iran | Persian | 27.6 | 2.94 |
-| `fr_ca` | Canada | French | 1105.6 | 2.93 |
-| `fr_cd` | DR Congo | French | 28.0 | 3.00 |
-| `fr_ci` | Cote d'Ivoire | French | 11.9 | 2.97 |
+| `en_sl` | Sierra Leone | English | 102.4 | 2.70 |
+| `id_id` | Indonesia | Indonesian | 94.1 | 2.95 |
+| `ar_dz` | Algeria | Arabic | 92.9 | 2.66 |
+| `ar_ma` | Morocco | Arabic | 78.3 | 2.68 |
+| `ha_td` | Chad | Hausa | 71.5 | 2.87 |
+| `sv_ax` | Åland Islands | Swedish | 66.0 | 2.73 |
 | `ga_ie` | Ireland | Irish | 60.6 | 3.00 |
-| `grc_gr` | Greece | Ancient Greek | 1.3 | 3.25 |
+| `ne_np` | Nepal | Nepali | 58.0 | 2.79 |
+| `sm_ws` | Samoa | Samoan | 55.9 | 2.79 |
 | `ha_ng` | Nigeria | Hausa | 54.9 | 2.88 |
-| `ha_td` | Chad | Hausa | 71.5 | 2.87 |
+| `ar_tn` | Tunisia | Arabic | 50.9 | 2.74 |
+| `tn_bw` | Botswana | Tswana | 49.7 | 2.88 |
+| `cnr_me` | Montenegro | Montenegrin | 47.9 | 2.98 |
+| `bn_bd` | Bangladesh | Bengali | 46.1 | 3.03 |
+| `mfe_mu` | Mauritius | Mauritian Creole | 44.3 | 3.45 |
 | `he_il` | Israel | Hebrew | 41.8 | 3.21 |
-| `hi_in` | India | Hindi | 1608.8 | 2.66 |
-| `hu_hu` | Hungary | Hungarian | 1350.1 | 2.96 |
-| `hy_am` | Armenia | Armenian | 1138.9 | 2.59 |
-| `id_id` | Indonesia | Indonesian | 94.1 | 2.95 |
 | `ig_ng` | Nigeria | Igbo | 40.7 | 3.31 |
-| `iu_ca` | Canada | Inuktitut | 33.8 | 2.81 |
-| `ja_jp` | Japan | Japanese | 1387.2 | 2.86 |
-| `ka_ge` | Georgia | Georgian | 206.4 | 2.37 |
-| `kk_kz` | Kazakhstan | Kazakh | 179.0 | 2.84 |
-| `ko_kr` | South Korea | Korean | 1278.9 | 3.08 |
+| `am_et` | Ethiopia | Amharic | 39.6 | 3.11 |
+| `el_gr` | Greece | Greek | 35.9 | 3.37 |
+| `ckb_iq` | Iraq | Sorani Kurdish | 35.3 | 2.93 |
 | `la_va` | Vatican | Latin | 34.8 | 3.37 |
-| `lb_lu` | Luxembourg | Luxembourgish | 1805.3 | 2.87 |
-| `mfe_mu` | Mauritius | Mauritian Creole | 44.3 | 3.45 |
-| `mi_nz` | New Zealand | Maori | 1.6 | 2.85 |
-| `ml_in` | India | Malayalam | 3.3 | 2.37 |
-| `mn_mn` | Mongolia | Mongolian | 181.0 | 2.80 |
-| `mr_in` | India | Marathi | 0.8 | 2.75 |
-| `ms_my` | Malaysia | Malay | 432.0 | 2.91 |
-| `ne_np` | Nepal | Nepali | 58.0 | 2.79 |
-| `nl_be` | Belgium | Dutch | 960.5 | 2.59 |
-| `nl_nl` | Netherlands | Dutch | 3692.6 | 3.00 |
-| `nr_za` | South Africa | Southern Ndebele | 0.2 | 2.60 |
-| `nso_za` | South Africa | Northern Sotho | 0.7 | 2.70 |
+| `iu_ca` | Canada | Inuktitut | 33.8 | 2.81 |
+| `uz_uz` | Uzbekistan | Uzbek | 33.7 | 2.84 |
+| `fr_cd` | DR Congo | French | 28.0 | 3.00 |
+| `fa_ir` | Iran | Persian | 27.6 | 2.94 |
+| `be_by` | Belarus | Belarusian | 24.2 | 3.10 |
+| `ar_eg` | Egypt | Arabic | 22.0 | 2.86 |
+| `af_za` | South Africa | Afrikaans | 20.2 | 2.79 |
+| `dv_mv` | Maldives | Dhivehi | 20.0 | 2.92 |
+| `zu_za` | South Africa | Zulu | 19.0 | 2.71 |
+| `sn_zw` | Zimbabwe | Shona | 18.2 | 2.88 |
+| `rw_rw` | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda | 17.6 | 2.63 |
 | `om_et` | Ethiopia | Oromo | 16.3 | 3.06 |
+| `eo` | (international) | Esperanto | 15.0 | 3.27 |
+| `rw_voa` | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda (VOA) | 14.5 | 2.77 |
+| `ti_et` | Ethiopia | Tigrinya | 14.0 | 3.10 |
+| `fr_ci` | Côte d'Ivoire | French | 11.9 | 2.97 |
+| `ar_un` | United Nations | Arabic | 11.1 | 3.03 |
+| `xh_za` | South Africa | Xhosa | 10.1 | 2.74 |
+| `en_jm` | Jamaica | English | 9.6 | 2.52 |
+| `ar_sa` | Saudi Arabia | Arabic | 6.1 | 2.01 |
+| `ml_in` | India | Malayalam | 3.3 | 2.37 |
 | `pa_in` | India | Punjabi | 3.3 | 2.54 |
-| `pl_pl` | Poland | Polish | 2731.9 | 2.70 |
-| `pt_br` | Brazil | Portuguese | 1763.5 | 2.68 |
-| `rm_ch` | Switzerland | Romansh | 163.1 | 3.14 |
-| `ro_md` | Moldova | Romanian | 1059.5 | 2.66 |
-| `ro_ro` | Romania | Romanian | 686.3 | 2.75 |
 | `ru_by` | Belarus | Russian | 2.9 | 2.79 |
-| `ru_ru` | Russia | Russian | 1534.2 | 3.03 |
-| `rw_rw` | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda | 17.6 | 2.63 |
-| `rw_voa` | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda | 14.5 | 2.77 |
-| `si_lk` | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 154.0 | 2.40 |
-| `ta_lk` | Sri Lanka | Tamil | 204.0 | 2.8 |
-| `sm_ws` | Samoa | Samoan | 55.9 | 2.79 |
-| `sn_zw` | Zimbabwe | Shona | 18.2 | 2.88 |
-| `sq_al` | Albania | Albanian | 257.4 | 2.69 |
-| `sq_xk` | Kosovo | Albanian | 176.6 | 2.69 |
-| `ss_za` | South Africa | Swati | 0.1 | 2.84 |
-| `st_za` | South Africa | Sesotho | 0.4 | 2.67 |
-| `sv_ax` | Aland Islands | Swedish | 66.0 | 2.73 |
-| `sw_tz` | Tanzania | Swahili | 710.4 | 2.56 |
-| `th_th` | Thailand | Thai | 845.3 | 3.18 |
-| `ti_et` | Ethiopia | Tigrinya | 14.0 | 3.10 |
-| `tl_ph` | Philippines | Tagalog | 219.0 | 2.88 |
-| `tn_bw` | Botswana | Tswana | 49.7 | 2.88 |
+| `mi_nz` | New Zealand | Māori | 1.6 | 2.85 |
+| `grc_gr` | Greece | Ancient Greek | 1.3 | 3.25 |
 | `tn_za` | South Africa | Tswana | 0.9 | 2.69 |
-| `tr_tr` | Turkey | Turkish | 1007.6 | 2.22 |
+| `nso_za` | South Africa | Northern Sotho | 0.7 | 2.70 |
+| `st_za` | South Africa | Sesotho | 0.4 | 2.67 |
+| `nr_za` | South Africa | Southern Ndebele | 0.2 | 2.60 |
 | `ts_za` | South Africa | Tsonga | 0.2 | 2.75 |
-| `uz_uz` | Uzbekistan | Uzbek | 33.7 | 2.84 |
+| `ss_za` | South Africa | Swati | 0.1 | 2.84 |
 | `ve_za` | South Africa | Venda | 0.1 | 2.72 |
-| `xh_za` | South Africa | Xhosa | 10.1 | 2.74 |
-| `yue_hk` | Hong Kong | Cantonese | 1943.5 | 3.02 |
-| `zh_tw` | Taiwan | Chinese (Mandarin) | 1482.1 | 2.47 |
-| `zu_za` | South Africa | Zulu | 19.0 | 2.71 |
-| `kh_km` | Cambodia | Khmer | 1323.0 | 2.85 |
-| `vn_vi` | Vietnam | Vietnamese | 726.0 | 2.90 |
-| `la_lo` | Laos | Lao | 827.0 | 2.82 |
-| `mm_my` | Myanmar | Burmese (RFA) | 865.0 | 2.88 |
-| `cn_ug` | China (Xinjiang) | Uyghur | 200.0 | 2.86 |
-| **Total** | - | - | 53,634.6 | 2.82 |
+| `mr_in` | India | Marathi | 0.8 | 2.75 |
+| **Total** | — | — | **53,634.6** | **2.82** |
 
+</details>
 
-## Dataset License
+---
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- [ ] **v1.1** — speaker-disjoint held-out evaluation split
+- [ ] **v1.1** — per-row machine-readable license field
+- [ ] **v1.2** — speaker diarization labels for parliamentary configs
+- [ ] **v1.2** — WorldSpeech-Eval companion leaderboard with contamination-protected test sets
+- [ ] **v2** — expansion of low-resource African and Indigenous-language configs
+
+---
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{asonitis2026worldspeech,
+  title     = {WorldSpeech: Aligned Speech for the World's Underserved Languages},
+  author    = {Asonitis, Adonis and others},
+  year      = {2026},
+  note      = {Under review},
+  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/AAdonis/WorldSpeech}
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+## Contact
+
+Issues, takedowns, license questions: open a discussion on this repository.
+
+---
+
+## Per-config licenses
 
-WorldSpeech is released under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Individual source licenses apply and are listed in the [Licenses](#licenses) table. Where a source license is more restrictive than CC BY-NC 4.0, the more restrictive terms govern that config.
-
-
-## Per Config Licenses
-
-| Config | Country / Language | License | Notes |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `af_za` | South Africa / Afrikaans | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `am_et` | Ethiopia / Amharic | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `ar_bh` | Bahrain / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.nuwab.bh/) |  |
-| `ar_dz` | Algeria / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.apn.dz/) |  |
-| `ar_eg` | Egypt / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.eg/) |  |
-| `ar_iq` | Iraq / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://parliament.iq/) |  |
-| `ar_kw` | Kuwait / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.kna.kw/) |  |
-| `ar_ma` | Morocco / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlement.ma/) |  |
-| `ar_sa` | Saudi Arabia / Arabic | [Government Archive (Public Record)](https://www.gph.gov.sa/) |  |
-| `ar_tn` | Tunisia / Arabic | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.tn/) |  |
-| `ar_un` | United Nations / Arabic | [UN Official Records](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/copyright) | UN official records; non-commercial/research use per UN terms. Contact permissions@un.org for commercial use. |
-| `az_az` | Azerbaijan / Azerbaijani | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `be_by` | Belarus / Belarusian | [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) |  |
-| `bn_bd` | Bangladesh / Bengali | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `ckb_iq` | Iraq / Sorani Kurdish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://parliament.iq/) |  |
-| `cnr_me` | Montenegro / Montenegrin | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.skupstina.me/) |  |
-| `crs_sc` | Seychelles / Kreol Seselwa | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.nationalassembly.sc/) |  |
-| `cs_cz` | Czech Republic / Czech | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.psp.cz/) |  |
-| `de_at` | Austria / German | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlament.gv.at/rechtliches) |  |
-| `dv_mv` | Maldives / Dhivehi | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://majlis.gov.mv/) |  |
-| `el_cy` | Cyprus / Greek | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.cy/) |  |
-| `el_gr` | Greece / Greek | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/) |  |
-| `en_au` | Australia / English | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.aph.gov.au/Help/Disclaimer_Privacy_Copyright) |  |
-| `en_jm` | Jamaica / English | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.japarliament.gov.jm/) |  |
-| `en_ke` | Kenya / English | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.go.ke/) |  |
-| `en_nz` | New Zealand / English | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.nz/en/footer/copyright/) |  |
-| `en_sl` | Sierra Leone / English | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.sl/) |  |
-| `en_zm` | Zambia / English | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.zm/) |  |
-| `eo` | (international) / Esperanto | [CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)](https://librivox.org/pages/public-domain/) |  |
-| `es_ar` | Argentina / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.hcdn.gob.ar/) |  |
-| `es_cl` | Chile / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.camara.cl/) |  |
-| `es_co` | Colombia / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.camara.gov.co/) |  |
-| `es_es` | Spain / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.congreso.es/) |  |
-| `es_mx` | Mexico / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.congreso.gob.mx/) |  |
-| `es_pe` | Peru / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.congreso.gob.pe/) |  |
-| `es_pr` | Puerto Rico / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.camaraderepresentantes.org/) |  |
-| `es_py` | Paraguay / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.congreso.gov.py/) |  |
-| `es_uy` | Uruguay / Spanish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://parlamento.gub.uy/) |  |
-| `fa_ir` | Iran / Persian | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `fr_ca` | Canada / French | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.assnat.qc.ca/) |  |
-| `fr_cd` | DR Congo / French | [ICC Court Records](https://www.icc-cpi.int/disclaimer) | Public judicial proceedings of an international court; non-commercial/educational use per ICC terms. |
-| `fr_ci` | Cote d'Ivoire / French | [ICC Court Records](https://www.icc-cpi.int/disclaimer) | Public judicial proceedings of an international court; non-commercial/educational use per ICC terms. |
-| `ga_ie` | Ireland / Irish | [CC BY 4.0 (Oireachtas PSI Licence)](https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/open-data/license/) |  |
-| `grc_gr` | Greece / Ancient Greek | [CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)](https://librivox.org/pages/public-domain/) |  |
-| `ha_ng` | Nigeria / Hausa | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `ha_td` | Chad | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `he_il` | Israel / Hebrew | [CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)](https://librivox.org/pages/public-domain/) | LibriVox recordings (CC0) + Ben-Yehuda Project texts (public domain per Israeli copyright law). |
-| `hi_in` | India / Hindi | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://sansad.in/) |  |
-| `hu_hu` | Hungary / Hungarian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlament.hu/) |  |
-| `hy_am` | Armenia / Armenian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.am/) |  |
-| `id_id` | Indonesia / Indonesian | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `ig_ng` | Nigeria / Igbo | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `iu_ca` | Canada / Inuktitut | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.assembly.nu.ca/) |  |
-| `ja_jp` | Japan / Japanese | [CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)](https://librivox.org/pages/public-domain/) | LibriVox recordings (CC0) + Aozora Bunko texts (public domain, 50yr Japanese law). |
-| `ka_ge` | Georgia / Georgian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://parliament.ge/) |  |
-| `kk_kz` | Kazakhstan / Kazakh | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlam.kz/) |  |
-| `kh_km` | Cambodia / Khmer | [RFA Terms of Use (non-commercial)](https://www.rfa.org/english/about/terms-of-use/) | Metadata only — audio not embedded. Download audio from `source_url`. Non-commercial research use; see RFA terms. |
-| `ko_kr` | South Korea / Korean | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.assembly.go.kr/) |  |
-| `la_va` | Vatican / Latin | [Vatican Radio Archive](https://www.vaticannews.va/en/others/terms-and-conditions.html) | Vatican Radio historical archive; contact Vatican Media for commercial use. |
-| `lb_lu` | Luxembourg / Luxembourgish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.chd.lu/) |  |
-| `la_lo` | Laos / Lao | [RFA Terms of Use (non-commercial)](https://www.rfa.org/english/about/terms-of-use/) | Metadata only — audio not embedded. Download audio from `source_url`. Non-commercial research use; see RFA terms. |
-| `mfe_mu` | Mauritius / Mauritian Creole | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://govmu.org/) |  |
-| `mi_nz` | New Zealand / Maori | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.nz/en/footer/copyright/) |  |
-| `ml_in` | India / Malayalam | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://niyamasabha.org/) |  |
-| `mn_mn` | Mongolia / Mongolian | [Parliamentary Proceedings / CC0](https://www.parliament.mn/) | Parliament sessions (public record) + Latter-day Saints addresses (CC0 per lds.org). |
-| `mr_in` | India / Marathi | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.vidhan.maharashtra.gov.in/) |  |
-| `ms_my` | Malaysia / Malay | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlimen.gov.my/) |  |
-| `mm_my` | Myanmar / Burmese | [RFA Terms of Use (non-commercial)](https://www.rfa.org/english/about/terms-of-use/) | Metadata only — audio not embedded. Download audio from `source_url`. Non-commercial research use; see RFA terms. |
-| `ne_np` | Nepal / Nepali | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.np/) |  |
-| `nl_be` | Belgium / Dutch | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.vlaamsparlement.be/) |  |
-| `nl_nl` | Netherlands / Dutch | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.tweedekamer.nl/) |  |
-| `nr_za` | South Africa / Southern Ndebele | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `nso_za` | South Africa / Northern Sotho | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `om_et` | Ethiopia / Oromo | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `pa_in` | India / Punjabi | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://vidhanpb.gov.in/) |  |
-| `pl_pl` | Poland / Polish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.sejm.gov.pl/) |  |
-| `pt_br` | Brazil / Portuguese | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.senado.leg.br/) |  |
-| `rm_ch` | Switzerland / Romansh | [SRG SSR Terms of Use](https://www.srgssr.ch/en/who-we-are/public-service/) | Corpus compiled from publicly broadcast RTR programming; contact SRG SSR for commercial use. |
-| `ro_md` | Moldova / Romanian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlament.md/) |  |
-| `ro_ro` | Romania / Romanian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.senat.ro/) |  |
-| `ru_by` | Belarus / Russian | [Government Publication (Public Record)](https://president.gov.by/) |  |
-| `ru_ru` | Russia / Russian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://duma.gov.ru/) |  |
-| `rw_rw` | Rwanda / Kinyarwanda | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.rw/) |  |
-| `si_lk` | Sri Lanka / Sinhala | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.lk/) |  |
-| `sm_ws` | Samoa / Samoan | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://parliament.ws/) |  |
-| `sn_zw` | Zimbabwe / Shona | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `sq_al` | Albania / Albanian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parlament.al/) |  |
-| `sq_xk` | Kosovo / Albanian | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.assembly-kosova.org/) |  |
-| `ss_za` | South Africa / Swati | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `st_za` | South Africa / Sesotho | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `sv_ax` | Aland Islands / Swedish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.lagting.ax/) |  |
-| `sw_tz` | Tanzania / Swahili | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.bunge.go.tz/) |  |
-| `ta_lk` | Sri Lanka / Tamil | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.lk/) |  |
-| `th_th` | Thailand / Thai | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.go.th/) |  |
-| `ti_et` | Ethiopia / Tigrinya | [Public Domain (17 USC §105)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105) | US federal agency content (VOA). |
-| `tl_ph` | Philippines / Tagalog | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.congress.gov.ph/) |  |
-| `tn_bw` | Botswana / Tswana | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.bw/) |  |
-| `tn_za` | South Africa / Tswana | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `tr_tr` | Turkey / Turkish | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.tbmm.gov.tr/) |  |
-| `ts_za` | South Africa / Tsonga | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `cn_ug` | China / Uyghur | [RFA Terms of Use (non-commercial)](https://www.rfa.org/english/about/terms-of-use/) | Metadata only — audio not embedded. Download audio from `source_url`. Non-commercial research use; see RFA terms. |
-| `uz_uz` | Uzbekistan / Uzbek | [RFE/RL Terms of Use (non-commercial)](https://about.rferl.org/use-our-content/) | US government-funded broadcaster; non-commercial research use. Original Ozodlik (RFE/RL Uzbek) content. |
-| `ve_za` | South Africa / Venda | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `vn_vi` | Vietnam / Vietnamese | [RFA Terms of Use (non-commercial)](https://www.rfa.org/english/about/terms-of-use/) | Metadata only — audio not embedded. Download audio from `source_url`. Non-commercial research use; see RFA terms. |
-| `xh_za` | South Africa / Xhosa | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
-| `yue_hk` | Hong Kong / Cantonese | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.legco.gov.hk/en/general/disclaimer.html) |  |
-| `zh_tw` | Taiwan / Chinese (Mandarin) | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.ly.gov.tw/) |  |
-| `zu_za` | South Africa / Zulu | [Parliamentary Proceedings](https://www.parliament.gov.za/legal) |  |
+*(See dataset card for full per-config license table.)*