Add complete README with transcription methodology and dataset documentation

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-license: cc-by-4.0
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+---
+license: cc-by-4.0
+task_categories:
+- automatic-speech-recognition
+- audio-classification
+language:
+- fr
+tags:
+- speech
+- education
+- french
+- whisper
+- asr
+- speech-recognition
+- fine-tuning
+size_categories:
+- 1K<n<10K
+---
+
+# French Education Speech - Transcribed Dataset
+
+High-quality French educational speech dataset transcribed with OpenAI Whisper API, prepared for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) models.
+
+## Dataset Summary
+
+This dataset contains 3,933 transcribed audio segments from the French educational domain, totaling approximately 12.82 hours of audio. All transcriptions were performed using OpenAI Whisper API (optimized Whisper-1 model) to ensure maximum accuracy, especially for educational terminology and acronyms.
+
+- **Total segments**: 3,933 (3,720 train + 213 validation)
+- **Total duration**: 12.82 hours (12.12h train + 0.70h validation)
+- **Average segment duration**: 11.7 seconds
+- **Language**: French
+- **Domain**: Education (conferences, podcasts, courses, interviews)
+- **Transcription quality**: High-precision commercial API (OpenAI Whisper)
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+### Splits
+
+- **train**: 3,720 segments (12.12 hours)
+- **validation**: 213 segments (0.70 hours)
+
+### Features
+
+Each example contains:
+
+- `id` (string): Unique segment identifier
+- `audio` (Audio): Audio file at 16kHz sampling rate
+- `text` (string): Transcribed text
+- `duration` (float32): Duration in seconds
+- `category` (string): Segment category (conferences, podcasts, cours, interviews)
+- `quality` (string): Audio quality (clean, medium)
+- `source` (string): Original source
+- `speaker_role` (string): Speaker role (teacher, student, etc.)
+- `domain` (string): Educational domain
+
+## Dataset Creation Methodology
+
+### Source Dataset
+
+The dataset is based on `MEscriva/french-education-speech`, which contains 13,711 audio segments (12,988 train + 723 validation) totaling 16.57 hours of audio from the French educational domain.
+
+### Transcription Process
+
+#### 1. Model Selection
+
+After evaluating multiple transcription options, OpenAI Whisper API was selected for transcription:
+
+- **Reason**: Highest precision available, optimized version of Whisper
+- **Advantages**: 
+  - Superior accuracy for French language
+  - Excellent handling of educational terminology and acronyms
+  - Commercial-grade reliability
+  - Better performance than open-source Whisper models
+
+#### 2. Quality Filtering
+
+To ensure transcription quality and minimize hallucinations, a minimum duration filter was applied:
+
+- **Filter**: Segments >= 4.0 seconds
+- **Rationale**: Shorter segments (< 4s) showed higher hallucination rates (e.g., YouTube-style end-of-video subtitles)
+- **Result**: 3,990 segments >= 4.0s selected from original 13,711 segments
+
+#### 3. Transcription Execution
+
+The transcription process was executed systematically:
+
+- **Tool**: Custom Python script (`transcribe_premium.py`)
+- **API**: OpenAI Whisper API (model: whisper-1)
+- **Language**: French (fr)
+- **Process**:
+  - Automatic resumption: Script could be stopped and resumed without data loss
+  - Periodic saving: Every 50 transcriptions to prevent data loss
+  - Error handling: Robust error handling for API failures
+  - Progress tracking: Real-time progress monitoring
+
+#### 4. Quality Control
+
+##### Hallucination Detection
+
+A systematic hallucination detection system was implemented:
+
+- **Detection keywords**: Common YouTube-style phrases ("Sous-titres réalisés", "Merci d'avoir regardé", "n'oubliez pas de vous abonner", etc.)
+- **Monitoring**: Real-time detection during transcription
+- **Logging**: All detected hallucinations logged for analysis
+- **Rate**: 0.93% hallucination rate detected (37 out of 3,970 segments)
+
+##### Hallucination Removal
+
+All detected hallucinations were removed from the final dataset:
+
+- **Removed**: 35 hallucinations from train set, 2 from validation set
+- **Final count**: 3,720 train segments, 213 validation segments
+- **Quality assurance**: Manual verification confirmed removal of all hallucinated content
+
+### Data Cleaning Pipeline
+
+1. **Duration filtering**: Segments < 4.0s excluded
+2. **Transcription**: OpenAI Whisper API transcription
+3. **Hallucination detection**: Automated keyword-based detection
+4. **Hallucination removal**: All detected hallucinations removed
+5. **Validation**: Final dataset verified for quality
+
+### Statistics
+
+#### Original Dataset
+- Total segments: 13,711
+- Segments >= 4.0s: 3,990 (29.1%)
+- Total duration: 16.57 hours
+
+#### Final Dataset
+- Total segments: 3,933 (28.7% of original)
+- Segments >= 4.0s: 3,933 (100% of filtered)
+- Total duration: 12.82 hours (77.4% of original duration)
+- Hallucination rate: 0.93% (removed)
+
+#### Quality Metrics
+- Average segment duration: 11.7 seconds
+- Average transcription length: 159 characters
+- Audio quality distribution: 47.4% clean, 52.6% medium, 0% noisy
+- Category distribution: 67.4% conferences, 30.0% podcasts, 2.6% courses
+
+## Usage
+
+### Loading the Dataset
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+dataset = load_dataset("MEscriva/french-education-speech-transcribed")
+
+# Access train and validation splits
+train = dataset['train']
+validation = dataset['validation']
+
+# Example usage
+print(train[0])
+# {
+#     'id': 'f7bc61a3091c0886646b4f80a388114f',
+#     'audio': {'path': '...', 'array': [...], 'sampling_rate': 16000},
+#     'text': "d'accessibilité.",
+#     'duration': 4.95,
+#     'category': 'conferences',
+#     'quality': 'clean',
+#     ...
+# }
+```
+
+### Training an ASR Model
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+dataset = load_dataset("MEscriva/french-education-speech-transcribed")
+
+# Use with transformers or other ASR training frameworks
+# The dataset is ready for fine-tuning Whisper or other ASR models
+```
+
+## Dataset Characteristics
+
+### Audio Quality
+- **Sampling rate**: 16kHz
+- **Format**: WAV
+- **Quality**: 47.4% clean, 52.6% medium quality
+- **No noisy segments**: All segments are clean or medium quality
+
+### Content Distribution
+- **Conferences**: 67.4% (primary domain)
+- **Podcasts**: 30.0%
+- **Courses**: 2.6%
+- **Interviews**: <0.1%
+
+### Speaker Roles
+- Teachers, students, and educational professionals
+- Various educational contexts and domains
+
+## Limitations and Considerations
+
+1. **Duration filter**: Only segments >= 4.0s are included. Shorter segments were excluded to minimize hallucinations.
+
+2. **Domain specificity**: The dataset is focused on educational content. Performance may vary for other domains.
+
+3. **Hallucination removal**: While hallucination rate is low (0.93%), some false positives may have been removed. Manual verification confirmed high quality.
+
+4. **Audio paths**: Original audio files must be accessible. The dataset references local file paths that may need adjustment for different environments.
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this dataset, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@dataset{french_education_speech_transcribed_2024,
+  title={French Education Speech - Transcribed Dataset},
+  author={MEscriva},
+  year={2024},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/MEscriva/french-education-speech-transcribed},
+  note={Transcribed with OpenAI Whisper API}
+}
+```
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+- Source dataset: `MEscriva/french-education-speech`
+- Transcription: OpenAI Whisper API
+- Quality assurance: Systematic hallucination detection and removal
+
+## License
+
+CC-BY-4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)
+
+This dataset is derived from `MEscriva/french-education-speech` which uses CC-BY-4.0 license. The transcriptions are original work created using OpenAI Whisper API, but the audio content follows the same licensing terms as the source dataset.
+
+## Contact
+
+For questions or issues, please open an issue on the Hugging Face dataset repository.