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Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS)

Introduced by Vineel Pratap et al. in MLS: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Research archive 2025-07-28

Multilingual LibriSpeech is a large multilingual corpus suitable for speech research. The dataset is derived from read audiobooks from LibriVox and consists of 8 languages - English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish. It includes about 44.5K hours of English and a total of about 6K hours for other languages.

Source: MLS: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Research

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Speech Recognition facebook/multilingual_librispeech german TDT 0-4 WER 3.93 Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting... NVIDIA/NeMo +3 1 Compare
Speech Recognition Multilingual LibriSpeech no rows — — 0 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 77. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations 4 1 13 Apr 2023 ran 1 of 2 samples (1 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

9 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY 4.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • facebook/multilingual_librispeech
  • Multilingual LibriSpeech, short-form (<= 30sec)
  • multilingual_librispeech es
  • multilingual_librispeech
  • facebook/multilingual_librispeech german
  • facebook/multilingual_librispeech italian
  • facebook/multilingual_librispeech French
  • facebook/multilingual_librispeech spanish
  • Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS)
  • Multilingual LibriSpeech

10 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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