MediBeng (Synthetic Code-Switched Bengali-English Speech Conversations for Healthcare Applications)

MediBeng Dataset

The MediBeng dataset contains synthetic code-switched dialogues in Bengali and English for training models in speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and machine translation in clinical settings. The dataset is available under the CC-BY-4.0 license.

• Access the dataset on Hugging Face.
• For detailed instructions on dataset creation and storage, visit the GitHub Repository

Dataset Details:

• Number of Audio Files: 4800
• Total Duration: 7.11 hours
• Number of Speakers: 2 (1 Male, 1 Female)
• Utterance Pitch Mean: 335 - 673 Hz
• Utterance Pitch Standard Deviation: 210 - 493 Hz
• Sampling Rate: 16000 Hz
• Data Split: Train and Test
• Duration Range: 3.71s - 6.98s
• Languages: Code-mixed Bengali-English
• Gender Distribution: 1 Male, 1 Female
• Total File Size: 324 MB
• Speech Type: Medical-related
• Data Type: Synthetic
• Languages: Bengali, English
• Tasks: ASR, TTS, Machine Translation
• Context: Clinical (Healthcare)
• License: CC-BY-4.0

MediBeng Dataset Columns

• audio: Synthetic Bengali-English clinical conversations.
• text: Code-switched Bengali-English conversations.
• translation: English translation.
• speaker_name: Speaker's gender (e.g., Male, Female).
• utterance_pitch_mean: Mean pitch of the audio in Hertz (Hz).
• utterance_pitch_std: Pitch variation (standard deviation in Hertz).

Dataset Creation:

1. Audio Collection: Conversations in Bengali-English for healthcare.
2. Transcription: Code-switched sentences.
3. Translation: Code-switched sentences English translation.
4. Feature Engineering: Calculating pitch features.
5. Storage: Available in Parquet format on Hugging Face.

Citation:

bibtex
@misc{promila_ghosh_2025,
    author       = {Promila Ghosh},
    title        = {MediBeng (Revision b05b594)},
    year         = 2025,
    url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/pr0mila-gh0sh/MediBeng},
    doi          = {10.57967/hf/5187},
    publisher    = {Hugging Face}
}