HuggingFace Datasets

by Hugging Face

Streaming loader for Common Voice, LibriSpeech, GigaSpeech, FLEURS.

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TL;DR

Best for training pipelines that need to stream multi-TB speech corpora without caching the whole set. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
Apache-2.0
Stars
★ 21.8k
Last push
2026-08-07
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows

What it is

The de-facto loader for every public speech dataset on the Hub. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Training pipelines that need to stream multi-TB speech corpora without caching the whole set.
Watch out for: Schemas vary per corpus; iterable mode lacks some indexing features.

Install / use

pip install datasets

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported100
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

HuggingFace Datasets vs Whipscribe

FeatureHuggingFace DatasetsWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages10099
PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsWeb, API, MCP

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