FeruzaSpeech_to_fine_tuning

A speech corpus of ⏱️ ~59.1 total hours of Uzbek audio paired with Latin‑script transcripts, intended for fine‑tuning ASR / speech‑to‑text models.

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Dataset Details

Dataset Description

This dataset contains recordings of native Uzbek speakers reading a mix of classical literature excerpts and school‑level writing prompts:

• 001: Choliqushi (a novel by Rashod Nuri Guntekin, trans. by Mirzakalon Ismoiliy; first pub. Sept 1900).
• 002: Excerpts from Uzbek secondary‑school essays (“To‘rtinchi sinfda edim…”, “Hayotdagi ilk xotiralaringizni yozing…”).
• .....

Each line in text_latin.txt is of the form:

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We strip the filename prefix in preprocessing so that the text field contains only the spoken words.

Dataset Statistics

Split	# Examples	Total Size	Approx. Duration
train	11 444	5.37 GB	52.09 hours
dev	648	0.34 GB	2.93 hours
test	899	0.47 GB	4.08 hours

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

We aim to provide a high‑quality, publicly available Uzbek ASR dataset combining both literary and educational domains to improve model robustness.

Source Data

• Audio recorded in a quiet home‑studio environment, 16 kHz mono WAV, 16‑bit PCM.
• Transcripts created from existing texts (classical novels, school writing prompts).

Who Are the Source Data Producers?

• Recordings & Transcriptions by: k2speech/FeruzaSpeech
• Translators / Editors: Nickoo 004

Uses

Direct Use

Fine‑tuning or evaluating speech‑to‑text/ASR models for Uzbek. It’s also suitable for speech processing research (voice activity detection, speaker diarization, etc.).

Out‑of‑Scope Use

• Speaker identification / sensitive demographic inference.
• Real‑time speech generation.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

• Task: Automatic Speech Recognition

Dataset Structure

Each example has the following fields:

• audio: an Audio object (array + sampling_rate)
• text: Latin‑script transcript, cleaned of filename tokens
• duration: audio length in seconds
• token_count: length of the transcript in raw word‑piece tokens

Distribution

• License: Apache 2.0
• Repository: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nickoo004/FeruzaSpeech_to_fine_tuning

Who Maintains This Dataset

• Created and maintained by: Nickoo 004
• Last updated: 2025‑05‑02
• Contact & Social:
  • Email: nursultankoshekbaev477@gmail.com

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{feruzaspeech2025,
  title        = {FeruzaSpeech\_to\_fine\_tuning: An Uzbek ASR Dataset},
  author       = {Nickoo\, 004},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/nickoo004/FeruzaSpeech_to_fine_tuning}},
  license      = {Apache 2.0}
}