---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
pretty_name: Voice Command Sentences
tags:
- speech
- asr
- fine-tuning
- single-speaker
- voice-commands
- english
size_categories:
- n<1K
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*.parquet
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*.parquet
---
# Voice Command Sentences

One speaker reading **desktop voice commands** for a KDE Plasma voice-command agent: launching, switching to and closing apps (Konsole, Kate, Dolphin, Kdenlive, Audacity), browser and terminal tabs, windows and virtual desktops ("Move this to desktop 3."), volume, mic gain, brightness, keyboard layout (Hebrew, English), key presses, web searches and sites, plus `chatter` (speech that is not a command: talking to someone in the room, half sentences). `prompt_kind` is the agent tool or `chatter`; `target_terms` the app name. Numbers in digits. The test split is the agent's own eval phrases plus 5 held-out apps (app-disjoint), recorded on a desk microphone. Prompts written from templates by Claude (2026-11-02).



**This is a subset of [`danielrosehill/Read-Aloud-Voice-Sentences`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/danielrosehill/Read-Aloud-Voice-Sentences)**, the full, undifferentiated
dataset. It contains every phone recording there whose `categories` include `voice-commands` (the capture app's task of that name). Rows are copied
unchanged, with the same ids, columns and train/test split, by `scripts/sync_subsets.py` in the
project repository. Do not edit this dataset directly: fix the row in the main dataset and re-sync.
The subset grows as new takes are published.

**Speaker:** Daniel Rosehill, the dataset's author, who was born in Ireland and speaks English with an **Irish accent**, and who lives in Jerusalem. Every recording is his voice. **Deliberate variation:** he sometimes changes his speaking speed on purpose (fast and rushed, or slow) and sometimes says a word the way people commonly mispronounce it, to make the models robust to real speech. The transcript is always the sentence as written, so a take whose speed or pronunciation sounds off against its card is usually intentional, not a recording error.

All audio was recorded on a **OnePlus Nord 3 5G** phone using its **internal microphone**, with browser echo cancellation, noise suppression and auto gain turned off.

## Layout

```
data/train-*.parquet   one row per take: `audio` (the FLAC or WAV file, embedded) and every column
meta/train.jsonl       index: the same rows without audio, plus `shard`, `audio_path` and the audio's byte range
meta/schema.json       column types
data/test-*.parquet, meta/test.jsonl   held-out set, never trained on
```

Audio is 48 kHz mono 24-bit FLAC for rows from 2026-10-22 and 16 kHz mono 16-bit WAV before.

The `test` split is **term-disjoint**: a held-out term never appears in `train`.
`load_dataset("danielrosehill/Voice-Command-Sentences")` works directly.

## Columns

The columns are the same as in the main dataset: `text` (ground truth, punctuated and cased like
Parakeet v2 output), `text_he` (the same transcript with its Hebrew terms in Hebrew script, for
Hebrew-capable models), `categories`, `target_terms`, `prompt_source`, `prompt_origin` (manual / dataset / generated), `edited`, `duration_s`,
`environment`, `conditions`, `device`, `speaker`, `speaker_gender`, `contributor`, `hebrew_pronunciation`, `variant_groups`, `variant_spelling` and `recorded_at`. The main dataset's card describes them.

## Licence

CC-BY-4.0, with sentence-text attribution per `prompt_source` as described in the
[main dataset's licence section](https://huggingface.co/datasets/danielrosehill/Read-Aloud-Voice-Sentences#licence-and-attribution).