README.md

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license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- audio-classification
- question-answering
language:
- en
pretty_name: Real Audio Bench
---

# Real Audio Bench

Real Audio Bench is a compact human-recorded benchmark for streaming spoken reasoning. The benchmark contains 186 English audio recordings. Each item is a natural spoken question in which an early answer can be misleading until a later cue is heard.

Audio files are hosted at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Oulasong/Real_Audio_Bench

## Files

- `audio/`: 186 WAV files.
- `real_audio_bench_manifest.jsonl`: one metadata row per audio file, including the transcript-style question, corrected gold answer, and item metadata.
- `real_audio_bench_manifest.csv`: CSV version of the same manifest.
- `real_audio_bench_gold_answers.csv`: compact table with audio path, question, gold answer, and basic tags for manual inspection.

## Manifest schema

Each row contains:

- `audio_path`: relative path of the WAV file in the Hugging Face dataset.
- `reader`: speaker/reader id.
- `item`: item id within the reader packet.
- `source_id`: source item identifier used during benchmark construction.
- `question`: spoken prompt text.
- `gold_answer`: reference answer used for evaluation.
- `category`, `difficulty`, `scenario`, `mechanism`, `duration`: construction metadata.
- `critical_cue`, `why_early_answer_is_wrong`, `speaker_note`: explanatory metadata from the reader packet.

## Construction summary

The benchmark was constructed from scripted spoken-reasoning prompts and recorded by five internal readers. The final public split keeps 186 recordings after removing ambiguous or unsuitable items from the 200-item reader packet. The manifest contains the reference answers used for evaluation.

## Intended use

This benchmark is intended as a compact transfer check for models that answer spoken questions from real human recordings. It is not intended as a large-scale user study or as a general-purpose speech recognition benchmark.

## License

This dataset is released under CC BY 4.0.

## Release notes

This release contains 186 manifest rows and 186 unique audio paths. Each row has a non-empty reference answer.