Telugu (India) Scripted Monologue Speech Dataset for Travel Domain

The audio dataset comprises scripted monologue speech data in the Travel 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 Travel Domain. This meticulously curated dataset is designed to advance the development of Telugu language speech recognition models, particularly for the Travel 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 Travel 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 Travel sector. Topics include:

•Customer Service Interactions

•Booking and Reservations

•Travel 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 Travel 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 travel contexts, such as booking dates, departure and arrival times.

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Destinations: Specific names of cities, countries, and tourist attractions relevant to the travel sector.

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Numbers & Prices: Various numbers and prices related to ticket costs, hotel rates, and transaction amounts.

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Booking IDs and Confirmation Numbers: Inclusion of booking identification and confirmation details for realistic customer service scenarios.

Each scripted prompt is crafted to reflect real-life scenarios encountered in the Travel 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 Travel 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 Travel 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	పర్యాటకం అనేది ప్రపంచంలోనే అతి పెద్ద మరియు వేగంగా అభివృద్ధి చెందుతున్న పరిశ్రమ
Female(22)	00:00:11	ఎక్కువ మంది పర్యాటకులు తమ దేశానికి రావాలని కోరుకుంటున్నందున వారికి సురక్షితమైన మరియు మెరుగైన సౌకర్యాలు అవసరం.
Female(22)	00:00:07	భారతదేశంలో విదేశీ మారకద్రవ్యాన్ని ఆర్జించే రెండవ అతిపెద్దది పర్యాటకం
Female(22)	00:00:07	ప్రాంతీయ వంటకాలను శాంపిల్ చేసి తెలుసుకోవాలనుకునే ప్రయాణికులు స్థానిక రెస్టారెంట్‌లో తినాలి.
Female(22)	00:00:10	టూరిస్ట్ ఖర్చు డబ్బు స్థానిక ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థలలో, ప్రజా సేవల నుండి విద్య వరకు తిరిగి పెట్టుబడి పెట్టవచ్చు.

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