---
pretty_name: Turkmen Speech Dataset
language:
- tk
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- text-to-speech
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: duration
    dtype: float32
  - name: start
    dtype: float32
  - name: end
    dtype: float32
  - name: source
    dtype: string
  - name: speaker_id
    dtype: string
  - name: id
    dtype: string
  - name: language
    dtype: string
  - name: split
    dtype: string
  - name: sampling_rate
    dtype: int32
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_examples: 119853
  dataset_size: 10043004.0
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/metadata.csv
---

# Turkmen Speech Dataset (ASR)

This dataset contains **251 hours of Turkmen speech audio** with transcriptions, intended for training and evaluating **Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)** models.
It is one of the **largest publicly available Turkmen speech datasets**.

## Dataset Overview

| Property       | Value        |
|----------------|--------------|
| Total clips     | 119,847      |
| Total duration  | 251.86 hours |
| Sampling rate   | 16,000 Hz    |
| Language        | Turkmen (`tk`) |
| Split           | `train`      |

Each item includes:
- **audio**: waveform + sampling rate
- **text**: Turkmen transcription
- **duration**: clip length in seconds
- **start/end** timestamps from the original source
- **source**: YouTube link
- **speaker_id**: currently `unknown`

## Quality Notes
- 95% of clips are under **20 seconds**, suitable for ASR model training
- Contains real-world spoken Turkmen (news, interviews, dialogues, narration)
- Correct diacritic usage
- No empty or silent clips

## License

This dataset is released under the **Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)** license.

You are free to:
- Use, share, and modify the dataset **for research and non-commercial purposes only**

You must:
- Provide proper attribution
- **Not use the dataset or derivative works for commercial purposes**

Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/