American English Speech Recordings With Manual Transcripts

A collection of speech recordings from 349 American English speakers, recorded in a quiet environment. The audio covers categories like economics, entertainment, news, and spoken language, and is manually transcribed with start and end time annotations.

Use Cases

• Train an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model on manually transcribed speech recordings from 349 speakers.
• Analyze speech patterns and pronunciation across different content categories like economics, entertainment, and news.
• Build a model to align audio segments with text using the annotated starting and ending time points.

Strengths

• Contains 349 unique speaker recordings, providing a sample of American English.
• Recordings were made in a quiet environment, which can improve audio clarity.
• Manual transcription and annotation of start/end time points provide accurate labels.

Limitations

• The dataset is described as a sample of a larger paid dataset, so its scope is limited.
• The specific number of audio files, total duration, and demographic details of the 349 speakers are unknown.
• The dataset's license and terms of use for the sample are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Nexdata

Collection Method

Recorded via mobile phone reading by American locals in a quiet environment.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

United States