GigaSpeech: An Evolving, Multi-domain ASR Corpus with 10,000 Hours of Transcribed Audio
Abstract
This paper introduces GigaSpeech, an evolving, multi-domain English speech recognition corpus with 10,000 hours of high quality labeled audio suitable for supervised training, and 40,000 hours of total audio suitable for semi-supervised and unsupervised training. Around 40,000 hours of transcribed audio is first collected from audiobooks, podcasts and YouTube, covering both read and spontaneous speaking styles, and a variety of topics, such as arts, science, sports, etc. A new forced alignment and segmentation pipeline is proposed to create sentence segments suitable for speech recognition training, and to filter out segments with low-quality transcription. For system training, GigaSpeech provides five subsets of different sizes, 10h, 250h, 1000h, 2500h, and 10000h. For our 10,000-hour XL training subset, we cap the word error rate at 4% during the filtering/validation stage, and for all our other smaller training subsets, we cap it at 0%. The DEV and TEST evaluation sets, on the other hand, are re-processed by professional human transcribers to ensure high transcription quality. Baseline systems are provided for popular speech recognition toolkits, namely Athena, ESPnet, Kaldi and Pika.
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@article{arxiv.2106.06909,
title = {GigaSpeech: An Evolving, Multi-domain ASR Corpus with 10,000 Hours of Transcribed Audio},
author = {Guoguo Chen and Shuzhou Chai and Guanbo Wang and Jiayu Du and Wei-Qiang Zhang and Chao Weng and Dan Su and Daniel Povey and Jan Trmal and Junbo Zhang and Mingjie Jin and Sanjeev Khudanpur and Shinji Watanabe and Shuaijiang Zhao and Wei Zou and Xiangang Li and Xuchen Yao and Yongqing Wang and Yujun Wang and Zhao You and Zhiyong Yan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.06909},
year = {2025}
}