YODAS2: Ukrainian Speech Audio Corpus with 998 Hours

400,213 audio files totaling 998 hours and 41 minutes of validated Ukrainian speech data. The dataset is a subset of the YODAS2 corpus, curated by the user 'speech-uk' and last updated on October 26, 2025. It is hosted on Hugging Face and associated with Ukrainian speech technology communities.

Use Cases

• Training Ukrainian speech recognition models based on the validated audio corpus.
• Fine-tuning Ukrainian text-to-speech synthesis models based on the speech data.
• Benchmarking speech processing algorithms on a dedicated Ukrainian-language dataset.
• Conducting linguistic or phonetic analysis of Ukrainian speech patterns.

Strengths

• Large scale with 400,213 processed audio files.
• Substantial duration of 998 hours, 41 minutes, and 3 seconds of audio.
• Data is described as a validated subset, suggesting a quality control process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• License information is unavailable, which could restrict usage.

Provenance

Source

Subset of the YODAS2 corpus, curated by user 'speech-uk'.

Collection Method

Likely sourced from various audio recordings and validated.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2025-10 26 00:23:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Primarily Ukrainian language content.