The People's Speech

by MLCommons

30,000h CC-BY-licensed English ASR corpus — Internet-Archive sourced.

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TL;DR

Best for commercial-friendly English ASR training (CC-BY allows commercial use) at scale. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
Apache-2.0
Stars
★ 115
Last push
2024-01-11
Pricing
free
Platforms
HuggingFace

What it is

MLCommons People's Speech is a 30k-hour CC-BY English ASR corpus — the largest commercially-permissive labeled English speech corpus. Two splits: 12kh clean (CC BY-SA) + 18kh dirty (CC BY-NC-SA).

Best for: Commercial-friendly English ASR training (CC-BY allows commercial use) at scale.
Watch out for: CC BY-SA 4.0 (clean) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (dirty) · Internet Archive crawl · long-form audio with alignment noise · ~20% transcripts via forced alignment. Cite: Galvez et al., NeurIPS 2021.

Install / use

from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('MLCommons/peoples_speech', 'clean')

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

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FeatureThe People's SpeechWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsHuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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