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This is a preview subset of the Minspeech Southern Min speech corpus. Audio is sourced from copyrighted TV drama content and is released here strictly for non-commercial research use under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, consistent with the original Minspeech license (https://minspeech.github.io/). By requesting access you agree to use this data only for non-commercial research purposes and not to redistribute the raw audio.

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Minspeech (Southern Min) - Sample

Preview subset (10 utterances per split) of the Minspeech Southern Min (Taiwanese) speech corpus, staged from an internal COS copy ahead of a full transfer to Hugging Face.

Dataset Structure

  • id: official Minspeech utterance ID (S<series><episode><utterance> for train/dev/ test; source video ID for unlabeled).
  • audio: audio clip (16kHz mono WAV), spoken in Southern Min / Taiwanese.
  • mandarin: Mandarin Chinese transcript, exactly as released in the official *_text files. Not a Taiwanese-script transcription of the audio. Empty for unlabeled (see below).

Splits

  • train / dev / test: official Minspeech ASR splits, utterance-level clips with transcripts, matching the official *_wav.scp / *_text files exactly.
  • unlabeled: raw, not utterance-segmented source video audio with no transcript (mandarin is an empty string). The original Minspeech release ships only a video ID list for this portion and expects users to run their own VAD (the authors suggest silero-vad) to cut it into utterances. This preview's unlabeled clips are 20-second excerpts from the start of 10 source videos, for illustration only; the full unlabeled split will contain complete, uncut source audio.

Statistics

split lang_name hours n_utts n_chars_in_utts secs/utt chars/sec n_sents n_chars_in_sents
train Taigi 0.0057 10 78 2.06 3.79 0 0
dev Taigi 0.0053 10 70 1.9 3.68 0 0
test Taigi 0.0068 10 83 2.46 3.37 0 0
unlabeled Taigi 0.0556 10 0 20.03 0 0 0
Total - 0.0734 40 231 6.61 0.87 0 0
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Use case
: ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition)
Language
, matching the official Minspeech release as-is.
Source
official corpus (Southern Min TV drama), re-cropped to match the official splits exactly. See "Splits" below for details.
Audio format
: 16kHz, mono, PCM WAV
Split
: 4 splits, see below.
Total file size:
17 GB