Tashkent Dialect Uzbek Speech: 10K-100K Podcast Audio Transcriptions

Between 10,000 and 100,000 audio clips and transcriptions of Tashkent dialect Uzbek speech comprise this dataset. Collected by islomov from YouTube podcasts like Jahongir Latipov and Bu podcast, it was last updated in June 2025 for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks.

Use Cases

• Training Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models using the audio clips and text transcriptions
• Dialect identification to distinguish Tashkent speech from other Uzbek variants
• Linguistic analysis of informal Uzbek syntax within the text transcriptions

Strengths

• Contains between 10,000 and 100,000 records
• Focuses on the specific Tashkent dialect of the Uzbek language
• Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license

Limitations

• Geographic bias toward the Tashkent region, limiting generalizability to other Uzbek dialects
• Potential transcription noise due to the informal nature of podcast conversations
• Lack of detailed speaker metadata or demographic information

Provenance

Source

YouTube (Jahongir Latipov and Bu podcast channels)

Collection Method

Scraped from public YouTube podcast videos

Freshness

Last updated June 2025.

Geography

Tashkent, Uzbekistan