| --- |
| license: other |
| language: |
| - yi |
| task_categories: |
| - automatic-speech-recognition |
| tags: |
| - yiddish |
| - asr |
| - benchmark |
| - multi-genre |
| pretty_name: Yiddish ASR Benchmark (Multi-Genre) |
| --- |
| |
| # Yiddish ASR Benchmark (Multi-Genre) |
|
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| A small, genre-diverse Yiddish ASR benchmark seed set: 6 clips (~53 minutes total), one per |
| genre, each with a Gemini-generated verbatim reference transcript. Intended to complement the |
| existing single-speaker Yiddish24 collections (`Kohn-AI/yiddish24-audio`, |
| `Kohn-AI/yiddish24-wav`, `ABE101/yiddish24-dual-asr`) with broader genre coverage for |
| benchmarking rather than training. |
|
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| All source audio is from [yiddish24.com](https://yiddish24.com). |
|
|
| | field | meaning | |
| |---|---| |
| | `file_name` | audio (mp3) under `data/` | |
| | `genre` | one of `torah_shiur`, `news`, `interview`, `monologue_podcast`, `general_podcast`, `vlog` | |
| | `title` | episode/segment title | |
| | `speaker` | presenter/host name, where applicable | |
| | `category_path` | yiddish24.com category the source came from | |
| | `track_id` | yiddish24 post id(s); `news` clip concatenates 3 bulletins, ids `;`-separated | |
| | `source_url` | original cloudfront/cdn url(s); `;`-separated for the concatenated `news` clip | |
| | `clip_offset_sec` | start offset (seconds) into the original recording where this clip begins | |
| | `duration_sec` | clip duration | |
| | `text_gemini` | reference transcript (Yiddish, Hebrew script), verbatim, unclear spans marked `[?]` | |
| | `transcription_model` | model used to produce `text_gemini` | |
|
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| ## Genres |
|
|
| | genre | title | source | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `torah_shiur` | פרשת דברים | הרה"ג ר' גמליאל ראבינאוויטש שליט"א | |
| | `news` | 3 concatenated news bulletins | Kol Mevaser news desk | |
| | `interview` | הרב דוד פינטער - עמעזאן דיסטריבורטער | אלגעמיינע אינטערוויוס | |
| | `monologue_podcast` | קול מדע | משה נחום קרויס | |
| | `general_podcast` | טשיקאווע ברעקלעך | יושע ווייס | |
| | `vlog` | עיטש וואק קאמפאני | חיים פערלאוויטש שאו | |
|
|
| **6 clips · ~53 min.** |
|
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| ## Reference transcript method |
|
|
| `text_gemini` was produced by `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, called via the Vercel AI Gateway |
| chat completions endpoint with the audio file attached as a `file` content part |
| (`media_type: audio/mpeg`) and a verbatim-transcription prompt. These are a first-pass gold |
| standard — worth a human spot-check before treating as strict ground truth, especially for |
| proper nouns and numbers. Unclear audio is marked `[?]` in the transcript. |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("Kohn-AI/yiddish-asr-benchmark") |
| ``` |
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