Romanian Conversational Speech Dataset
1,000 hours of spontaneous two-person conversations in Romanian, recorded in Romania with 100 vetted native speakers. Dual-channel audio, time-aligned human-verified transcripts and speaker metadata, licensed for commercial ASR, TTS and voice AI training.
This repository is the dataset card only. The audio is licensed commercially and isn't hosted on Hugging Face. Free samples (audio, matching transcripts and the metadata schema) are sent on request: request Romanian samples.
Specifications
| Language | Romanian |
| Recorded in | Romania |
| Speech type | Spontaneous two-person conversations |
| Volume | 1,000 hours |
| Speakers | 100 vetted native speakers |
| Audio | Dual-channel, one channel per speaker |
| Transcripts | Time-aligned, human-verified |
| Speaker metadata | Age, gender, region, recording device |
| Consent | Signed commercial-use consent from every speaker |
| License | Commercial, for training and evaluation |
| Price | $85 per hour of audio, volume discounts available |
What makes Romanian hard for speech recognition
Romanian is a Romance language with Slavic, Turkish and Hungarian loanwords. It has the central vowels "ă" and "î", and the definite article attaches to the end of the noun ("om", "omul"). Those endings and vowels are easy to mishear, and it shows up directly in word error rate.
Built for
- Automatic speech recognition (ASR / STT)
- Text-to-speech and voice synthesis prosody
- Voice agents and IVR for Romania
- Speaker diarization and turn-taking models
- Speech LLM and audio-understanding fine-tuning
Getting the data
Request samples with a company email on the Romanian dataset page and the team replies with representative audio and transcripts so you can check quality, accents and transcript conventions before you buy. Need more hours, another dialect or your own recording setup? SpeechData.ai also collects speech data to spec, or you can book a call.
About SpeechData.ai
SpeechData.ai licenses conversational speech datasets in 60 languages and dialects and runs custom speech data collection. It's part of Spirelight. Browse the full catalog.
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