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---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
- de
- es
multilinguality:
- multilingual
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- audio-classification
pretty_name: Multilingual Speech Sample
dataset_info:
- config_name: all_samples
features:
- name: id
dtype: int64
- name: gender
dtype: string
- name: ethnicity
dtype: string
- name: occupation
dtype: string
- name: country_code
dtype: string
- name: birth_place
dtype: string
- name: mother_tongue
dtype: string
- name: dialect
dtype: string
- name: year_of_birth
dtype: int64
- name: years_at_birth_place
dtype: int64
- name: languages_data
dtype: string
- name: os
dtype: string
- name: device
dtype: string
- name: browser
dtype: string
- name: duration
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- name: emotions
dtype: string
- name: language
dtype: string
- name: location
dtype: string
- name: noise_sources
dtype: string
- name: script_id
dtype: int64
- name: type_of_script
dtype: string
- name: script
dtype: string
- name: transcript
dtype: string
- name: transcription_segments
dtype: string
- name: audio
dtype: audio
- name: speaker_id
dtype: string
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num_examples: 1196
- config_name: english_united_states
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- name: train
num_examples: 277
- config_name: english_nigeria
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- name: train
num_examples: 265
- config_name: english_china
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- name: train
num_examples: 185
- config_name: german_germany
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- name: train
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- config_name: spanish_mexico
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 141
configs:
- config_name: all_samples
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/*/train-*.parquet
- config_name: english_united_states
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/english_united_states/train-*.parquet
- config_name: english_nigeria
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/english_nigeria/train-*.parquet
- config_name: english_china
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/english_china/train-*.parquet
- config_name: german_germany
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/german_germany/train-*.parquet
- config_name: spanish_mexico
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/spanish_mexico/train-*.parquet
size_categories:
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---
# Silencio Network: Multilingual Accent Speech Dataset (Sample)
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<img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/69162b50b89e7abe20de4b5a/LWhs4p2lPFcyiVsP0tluu.png" width="40%">
</p>
## Overview
Silencio data is valuable because it’s collected in the wild from a massive, opt-in community (1.2M users across 180+ countries), giving buyers real-world accents, dialects, devices, and environments that lab or scraped datasets don’t capture. Every recording is tied to explicit, traceable consent and processed with privacy-first pipelines (GDPR/CCPA compliant, anonymized, PII hashed), which reduces legal risk for enterprise buyers. On top of that, the same community lets us scale quickly into hard-to-source languages and niches, so clients get both authenticity today and a credible path to large volumes tomorrow.
This dataset is a crowdsourced multilingual–accented English and non-English speech dataset designed for model training, benchmarking, and acoustic analysis. It emphasizes accent variation, short-form scripted prompts, and spontaneous free speech. All recordings were produced by contributors using their own devices, with Whisper-generated transcripts provided for every sample.
The dataset is structured for direct use in ASR, TTS, accent-classification, diarization-adjacent analysis, speech segmentation, and embedding evaluation.
## Languages and Accents
This dataset covers five language–region pairs (to find out more about other combinations please reach out to us):
- **English (China)**: English spoken with Mandarin-influenced accent
- **English (Nigeria)**: Nigerian-accented English
- **English (United States)**: American English
- **German (Germany)**: Native German speakers
- **Spanish (Mexico)**: Native Mexican Spanish speakers
All recordings are stored as **48 kHz WAV** files.
## Speech Types
Each sample belongs to one of three categories:
- **free_speech**: unscripted speech on a provided topic
- **keywords**: short isolated prompts containing specific phrases or terms
- **monologues**: longer scripted passages
These values appear in the field `type_of_script`.
## Recording Conditions
All data is **crowdsourced**. Contributors record themselves using their available hardware and environment; conditions therefore vary naturally across microphones, devices, and noise profiles. No studio-grade normalisation or homogenisation is applied.
## Transcription
Transcriptions are machine-generated using **OpenAI Whisper**, preserving its segmentation structure where applicable.
## Dataset Statistics
Durations are given in hours. Counts reflect samples within each `(language, region, type_of_script)` partition.
### English (China)
| type_of_script | duration_hrs | recordings | speakers |
|----------------|--------------|------------|----------|
| free_speech | 0.99 | 72 | 19 |
| keywords | 0.48 | 57 | 10 |
| monologues | 0.98 | 56 | 11 |
### English (Nigeria)
| type_of_script | duration_hrs | recordings | speakers |
|----------------|--------------|------------|----------|
| free_speech | 0.98 | 75 | 65 |
| keywords | 0.99 | 141 | 101 |
| monologues | 0.99 | 49 | 32 |
### English (United States)
| type_of_script | duration_hrs | recordings | speakers |
|----------------|--------------|------------|----------|
| free_speech | 0.99 | 80 | 35 |
| keywords | 0.99 | 119 | 40 |
| monologues | 0.99 | 78 | 27 |
### German (Germany)
| type_of_script | duration_hrs | recordings | speakers |
|----------------|--------------|------------|----------|
| free_speech | 0.98 | 99 | 34 |
| keywords | 0.99 | 152 | 37 |
| monologues | 0.98 | 77 | 27 |
### Spanish (Mexico)
| type_of_script | duration_hrs | recordings | speakers |
|----------------|--------------|------------|----------|
| free_speech | 0.98 | 90 | 6 |
| keywords | 0.05 | 6 | 2 |
| monologues | 0.70 | 45 | 9 |
## File Structure
```
data/
english_china/
train-0000.parquet
english_nigeria/
train-0000.parquet
english_united_states/
train-0000.parquet
german_germany/
train-0000.parquet
spanish_mexico/
train-0000.parquet
```
Each parquet contains a mixture of **free_speech**, **keywords**, and **monologues**.
## Feature Schema
All configurations share the same feature structure:
- id: integer (unique identifier)
- speaker_id: string (hashed or anonymized speaker ID)
- gender: string (speaker gender)
- ethnicity: string (speaker ethnicity)
- occupation: float (occupation or profession, stored as float per original schema)
- country_code: string (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code)
- birth_place: string (country or region of birth)
- mother_tongue: string (native language)
- dialect: string (regional dialect)
- year_of_birth: int (birth year, YYYY)
- years_at_birth_place: int (years lived at birth place)
- languages_data: string (serialized language–proficiency data)
- os: string (recording operating system)
- device: string (recording device type)
- browser: string (browser used if web-based)
- duration: float (seconds) (audio length)
- emotions: string (brace-formatted emotion labels)
- language: string (primary language of the recording)
- location: string (recording location category)
- noise_sources: string (brace-formatted background noise labels)
- script_id: int (script template identifier)
- type_of_script: string {free_speech, keywords, monologues} (script category)
- script: string (text intended to be spoken)
- transcript: string (Whisper-generated transcription)
- transcription_segments: string (serialized segmentation with timing and word data)
- audio: WAV audio object (associated audio file)
## Licensing
Released under **CC BY-NC 4.0**.
Commercial use is not permitted. Attribution to **Silencio Network** is required for any publication or derivative dataset.
## Intended Use
Suitable for:
- accent-conditioned ASR training
- multilingual speech recognition
- TTS voicebank generation
- speaker embedding and similarity evaluation
- robustness benchmarking
- keyword-spotting models
- segmentation and VAD evaluation
## Limitations
- Transcripts are automatically generated. Errors may be present.
- Crowdsourced device diversity introduces variable noise levels.
## Citation
```
@dataset{silencio_network_speech_2025,
title = {Silencio Network Multilingual Accent Speech Corpus},
author = {Silencio Network},
year = {2025},
license = {CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
``` |