VoxPopuli

Multilingual corpus from 2009-2020 European Parliament recordings: a large unlabelled set across 23 languages plus transcribed speech and aligned interpretations.

• Task: asr, multilingual
• Languages: multi
• Domain: parliament
• License: CC0
• Homepage: https://github.com/facebookresearch/voxpopuli
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00390

Recommendation

Best for multilingual self-supervised pretraining and European-language ASR fine-tuning in a formal/parliamentary register. The unlabelled vs transcribed subsets differ enormously in size, so total hours depend on which subset you ingest. Formal political speech transfers poorly to conversational or noisy audio.

Getting the data

Obtain from the dataset homepage.

CC0 release; raw audio subject to the European Parliament legal notice. Mirrored at huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/voxpopuli.

Suggested processing

A recommended VoxKitchen pipeline ships in the repository at voxkitchen/templates/pipelines/asr-training-data.yaml — run it with vkit docker run.