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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - audio-classification |
| - question-answering |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: Real Audio Bench |
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| # Real Audio Bench |
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| 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. |
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| Audio files are hosted at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Oulasong/Real_Audio_Bench |
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| ## Files |
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| - `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. |
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| ## Manifest schema |
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| Each row contains: |
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| - `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. |
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| ## Construction summary |
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| 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. |
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| ## Intended use |
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| 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. |
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| ## License |
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| This dataset is released under CC BY 4.0. |
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| ## Release notes |
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| This release contains 186 manifest rows and 186 unique audio paths. Each row has a non-empty reference answer. |
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