README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
  - zh
pretty_name: Minspeech (Southern Min) - Sample
extra_gated_prompt: >-
  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.
extra_gated_fields:
  Name: text
  Affiliation: text
  Intended use: text
  I agree to use this dataset only for non-commercial research purposes: checkbox
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*.parquet
      - split: dev
        path: data/dev-*.parquet
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*.parquet
      - split: unlabeled
        path: data/unlabeled-*.parquet
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: id
      dtype: string
    - name: audio
      dtype: audio
    - name: mandarin
      dtype: string

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 Description

• Use case: ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition)
• Language: spoken audio is Southern Min / Taiwanese (drama dialogue); the transcript (mandarin) is written in Mandarin Chinese, not Taiwanese Han-lo -- the two are different languages, matching the official Minspeech release as-is.
• Source: Minspeech 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.

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