VIVOS: Vietnamese Speech Corpus for ASR

VIVOS Corpus

VIVOS is a free Vietnamese speech corpus consisting of 15 hours of recording speech prepared for Automatic Speech Recognition task.

The corpus was published by AILAB, a computer science lab of VNUHCM - University of Science, with Prof. Vu Hai Quan is the head of.

We publish this corpus in hope to attract more scientists to solve Vietnamese speech recognition problems. The corpus should only be used for academic purposes.

License

Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike v4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (details)

Associated paper

Please cite this paper when using VIVOS corpus for research

"A non-expert Kaldi recipe for Vietnamese Speech Recognition System", Hieu-Thi Luong and Hai-Quan Vu, in Proc. WLSI/OIAF4HLT2016 (paper)

Contact

[e-mail]

Corpus properties

Speech was recorded in a quiet environment with high quality microphone, speakers were asked to read one sentence at a time.

Training
Testing

Speakers
46
19

Male
22
12

Female
24
7

Utterances
11660
760

Duration
14:55
00:45

Unique Syllables
4617
1692

Evaluations

The corpus was evaluated using our non-expert recipe for Vietnamese Speech Recognition system which is described in the associated paper.

baseline
+pitch
+tone

mGMM
19.66
15.14
14.91

mGMM+MMI
18.08
14.96
13.91

mGMM+SAT
15.79
12.07
12.13

mDNN+SAT
13.34
9.54
9.48

Notice

This is the official replacement for http://ailab.hcmus.edu.vn/vivos/