Telugu (India) Scripted Monologue Speech Dataset for Retail & E-commerce Domain

The audio dataset comprises scripted monologue speech data in Retail & E-commerce domain, featuring native Telugu speakers from India. It includes speech data, detailed metadata, and accurate transcriptions.

About this Off-the-shelf Speech Dataset

Introduction

Welcome to the Telugu Scripted Monologue Speech Dataset for the Retail & E-commerce Domain. This meticulously curated dataset is designed to advance the development of Telugu language speech recognition models, particularly for the Retail & E-commerce industry.

Speech Data

This training dataset comprises over 6,000 high-quality scripted prompt recordings in Telugu. These recordings cover various topics and scenarios relevant to the Retail & E-commerce domain, designed to build robust and accurate customer service speech technology.

•Participant Diversity:

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Speakers: 60 native Telugu speakers from different regions of India.

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Regions: Ensures a balanced representation of Telugu accents, dialects, and demographics.

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Participant Profile: Participants range from 18 to 70 years old, representing both males and females in a 60:40 ratio, respectively.

•Recording Details:

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Recording Nature: Audio recordings of scripted prompts/monologues.

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Audio Duration: Average duration of 5 to 30 seconds per recording.

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Formats: WAV format with mono channels, a bit depth of 16 bits, and sample rates of 8 kHz and 16 kHz.

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Environment: Recordings are conducted in quiet settings without background noise and echo.

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Topic Diversity: The dataset encompasses a wide array of topics and conversational scenarios to ensure comprehensive coverage of the Retail & E-commerce sector. Topics include:

•Customer Service Interactions

•Order and Payment Processes

•Product and Service Inquiries

•Technical Support

•General Information and Advice

•Promotional and Sales Events

•Domain Specific Statements

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Other Elements: To enhance realism and utility, the scripted prompts incorporate various elements commonly encountered in Retail & E-commerce interactions:

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Names: Region-specific names of males and females in various formats.

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Addresses: Region-specific addresses in different spoken formats.

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Dates & Times: Inclusion of date and time in various retail and e-commerce contexts, such as delivery dates or promotional periods.

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Product Names: Specific names of products, brands, and categories relevant to the retail sector.

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Numbers & Prices: Various numbers and prices related to product quantities, discounts, and transaction amounts.

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Order IDs and Tracking Numbers: Inclusion of order identification and tracking information for realistic customer service scenarios.

Each scripted prompt is crafted to reflect real-life scenarios encountered in the Retail & E-commerce domain, ensuring applicability in training robust natural language processing and speech recognition models.

Transcription Data

In addition to high-quality audio recordings, the dataset includes meticulously prepared text files with verbatim transcriptions of each audio file. These transcriptions are essential for training accurate and robust speech recognition models.

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Content: Each text file contains the exact scripted prompt corresponding to its audio file, ensuring consistency.

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Format: Transcriptions are provided in plain text (.TXT) format, with files named to match their associated audio files for easy reference.

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Quality: All transcriptions are verified for accuracy and consistency by native Telugu transcribers.

Metadata

The dataset provides comprehensive metadata for each audio recording and participant:

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Participant Metadata: Unique identifier, age, gender, country, state, and dialect.

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Other Metadata: Recording transcript, recording environment, device details, sample rate, bit depth, and file format.

This metadata is a powerful tool for understanding and characterizing the data, enabling informed decision-making in the development of Telugu language speech recognition models.

Usage and Applications

This dataset is a versatile resource for various applications within speech recognition, natural language processing, and AI-driven conversational technologies.

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Speech Recognition Model Training: High-quality audio recordings and precise transcriptions for training and fine-tuning Telugu speech recognition models.

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Voice Synthesis: The diverse and high-quality audio data can train generative AI models for creating synthetic voices.

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Voice Assistants: Ideal for training voice assistants tailored to the Retail & E-commerce domain.

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Chatbots: Transcription data can train conversational models, enabling chatbots to respond to customer queries effectively.

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Entity Recognition: Sentences include names, dates, currencies, and other domain-specific entities for training NLP models for named entity recognition (NER) tasks.

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Language Understanding: Improve language understanding applications like sentiment analysis and topic modeling within the Retail & E-commerce sector.

Secure and Ethical Collection

•Our proprietary data collection and transcription platform, “Yugo” was used throughout the dataset creation process.

•Data remained within our secure platform, ensuring data security and confidentiality.

•The data collection process adhered to strict ethical guidelines, ensuring the privacy and consent of all participants.

•The dataset does not include any personally identifiable information about any participant, making it safe to use.

License

This Telugu Scripted Monologue Speech Dataset, created by FutureBeeAI, is available for commercial use.

Use Cases

Use of scripted speech monologues datasets for Automatic Speech Recognition

ASR

Conversational AI

Chatbot

Language modelling

Use of scripted speech monologues datasets for TTS

TTS

Speech Analytics

Mobile Speech

Dataset Sample(s)

TRANSCRIPTION

SPEAKER	DURATION	TRANSCRIPT
Female(22)	00:00:06	రిటైలర్‌లకు ఈ డేటా యొక్క ఏకీకృత వీక్షణ అవసరం.
Female(22)	00:00:11	రిటైల్ వ్యాపారాన్ని నడపడానికి మెరుగైన విక్రయం మరియు మార్కెటింగ్ నైపుణ్యాలు అవసరం
Female(37)	00:00:07	ప్రైవేట్ ఆందోళనల ద్వారా రిటైల్ చేయబడిన ఇతర ఇంధనాలతో కూడిన ఉమ్మడి బిల్లింగ్ గురించి ఎటువంటి అధ్యయనాలు లేవు.
Female(22)	00:00:07	అంతిమ వినియోగదారులకు తక్కువ పరిమాణంలో వస్తువులు లేదా వస్తువుల అమ్మకం
Female(29)	00:00:10	జాగ్రత్తగా రూపొందించిన కోర్సు యొక్క దృష్టి, సంపూర్ణ అభ్యాసం కోసం ఆచరణాత్మక బహిర్గతంతో సైద్ధాంతిక అభ్యాసాన్ని కలపడం.

Dataset Details

Language

Telugu

Language code

te-in

Country

India

Accents

Berad, Dasari ...moreDommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Salewari, Vadaga, Srikakula, Vishakhapatnam, East Godaveri, Rayalseema, Nellore, Guntur, Vadari

Gender Distribution

M:60, F:40

Age Group

18-70