Neapolitan Spoken Corpus: 141 Audio Sentences for ASR Benchmarking

Neapolitan-Spoken-Corpus (NSC) is the first publicly available speech corpus for benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition systems on the Neapolitan dialect. It includes 141 sentence-level audio recordings with gold-standard orthographic transcriptions. The dataset was created by anonymous-nsc-author to address the lack of computational resources for dialectological research.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking ASR model performance on Neapolitan based on the 141 audio recordings.
• Training or fine-tuning speech recognition models for a low-resource Romance dialect.
• Conducting linguistic research on Neapolitan using the provided orthographic transcriptions.
• Developing tools for dialect preservation and documentation.

Strengths

• First publicly available speech corpus specifically for the Neapolitan dialect.
• Includes 141 sentence-level audio recordings with gold-standard transcriptions.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

anonymous-nsc-author via Hugging Face

Collection Method

Likely recorded and transcribed specifically for this corpus.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2025-07-08 02:49:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Italy (Neapolitan dialect region)