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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - legal |
| - appellate-court |
| - audio-processing |
| - speech-to-text |
| - whisper-benchmark |
| pretty_name: Florida Appellate Court Oral Argument Transcription Dataset |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # Florida Appellate Court Oral Argument Transcription Dataset |
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| **Version:** 0.1 |
| **Released:** June 2026 |
| **Entries:** 1,440 Court Cases |
| **Engine Stack:** yt-dlp / ffmpeg / OpenAI Whisper-1 (Deterministic Configuration) |
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| ## What This Is |
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| A high-fidelity, structurally verified dataset comprising the oral argument records pulled from regional Florida Appellate Court dockets. Each entry in this repository consists of two permanently linked data modules: |
| 1. A compressed reference audio track (`.m4a`). |
| 2. A completely un-hallucinated, sub-second timestamped timeline matrix transcript (`.srt`). |
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| This dataset serves as an authentic acoustic baseline for evaluating how speech-to-text models perform when confronted with dense legal proper nouns, echoing courtroom acoustics, and rapid judge-to-attorney cross-talk interruptions. |
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| ## Technical Pipeline Architecture |
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| To bypass the typical text looping and data loss bugs associated with consumer-grade cloud transcription, all assets are processed through a hardened, zero-stochastic automation loop: |
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| ### Dynamic Guardrails Applied: |
| * **`temperature=0.0` (Anti-Stochastic Lock):** Eliminates text variance. Forces the model to operate as a direct phonetic typewriter, ensuring stutters, broken legal syntax, and case caption numbers are recorded exactly as spoken without semantic smoothing. |
| * **`response_format="srt"` (Anti-Loop Pacing):** Binds text blocks tightly to sub-second timeline arrays (`HH:MM:SS,mmm`). This completely suppresses the model's tendency to generate ghost text loops during long spells of ambient courtroom silence or microphone friction. |
| * **Lossless Slicing Framework:** Files crossing the 25MB server limit are parsed into 15-minute segments using `ffmpeg`, processed sequentially, and mathematically realigned via a localized time-offset alignment wrapper. |
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| ## Ingestion Cost & Infrastructure Benchmarks |
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| Processing raw courtroom acoustics at scale requires careful infrastructure balancing. The baseline benchmarks below illustrate real-world operational tradeoffs for this dataset volume: |
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| | Processing Stack / Provider | API Cost Rate | Projected Dataset Expense (1,440 Cases) | Structural Integrity Tradeoff | |
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| | **OpenAI Whisper-1 API (As Deployed)** | **$0.0060 / min** | **~$302.40** | **Hyper-Rigid Phonetic Accuracy:** Exceptional proper noun retrieval. Highly resilient against loop errors at zero temperature. Constrained by rigid 25MB limits. | |
| | **Groq Cloud Ecosystem** | **~$0.0030 / min** | **~$151.20** | **Ultra-Low Latency Acceleration:** Executes file passes nearly instantly via hardware LPUs. Bound by highly restrictive per-minute API rate throttles. | |
| | **Deepgram Engine (Nova-2)** | **$0.0043 / min** | **~$216.72** | **Advanced Diarization:** Excellent at distinguishing speech patterns when judges interrupt counsel. Prone to dropping words entirely in heavy echo conditions. | |
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| ## Dataset Layout Schema |
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| Each case asset is housed within a self-contained, isolated directory structure to ensure easy parsing, sorting, and indexing: |
