USPDATRO: Underrepresented Speech Dataset from Romanian language Open Data

 USPDATRO
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Underrepresented Speech Dataset from Open Data: Case Study on the Romanian Language (USPDATRO) is a manually created Romanian language speech corpus.
It was created specifically using speech types that are underrepresented in other speech datasets.
Sources for this dataset are represented by open data available on multimedia platforms under a Creative Commons license.
The data was manually transcribed and aligned at segment level.
In addition to the text and audio files, we offer text annotations (lemmatization, part of speech tags, dependency parsing) in CoNLL-U Plus format.

Each datasource is mentioned by URL in the metadata.csv file with associated license (a Creative Commons variant).

Dataset structure:
- audio: Folder with audio segments in WAV format
- text: Folder with corresponding transcriptions
- conllup: Folder with corresponding token-based annotations
- metadata.csv: Contains information about each segment

LICENSING

This work (transcriptions, alignment, metadata, annotations) is provided under the license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International).
The license can be viewed online here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
and the full text here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode .
The original works considered for audio sources are available under their respective licenses (Creative Commons variants) as described in the metadata.csv file.

CONTACT

Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu", Romanian Academy
Web: http://www.racai.ro
Contact emails: vasile@racai.ro