Khmer Speech News Audio and Transcripts from WMC

A collection of Khmer speech audio files and corresponding transcripts sourced from the Women's Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC) website. The dataset is prepared for machine learning tasks, with scripts provided to process audio and metadata into Parquet files. It was created by user 'vichetkao' and last updated on February 21, 2026.

Use Cases

• Training Khmer automatic speech recognition models based on news audio.
• Fine-tuning speech-to-text models based on professionally sourced transcripts.
• Benchmarking ASR performance on a domain-specific Khmer news corpus.
• Studying phonetic or linguistic patterns in formal Khmer speech based on news broadcasts.

Strengths

• Audio and transcripts are sourced from an official media organization (Women's Media Centre of Cambodia).
• Includes processing scripts to format data into Parquet files for efficient training pipelines.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and specific column structure are unknown from the provided metadata.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• License information is not provided, which may restrict usage.

Provenance

Source

Women's Media Centre of Cambodia (https://wmc.org.kh/)

Collection Method

Audio files and transcripts collected from the WMC website and processed with provided scripts.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-02-21 14:21:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Cambodia, given the Khmer language source.