| --- |
| 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](https://minspeech.github.io/) |
| 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](https://minspeech.github.io/) 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](https://github.com/snakers4/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** | |
| |
