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The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora
The SWC is a corpus of aligned Spoken Wikipedia articles from the English, German, and Dutch Wikipedia. This corpus has several outstanding characteristics:
- hundreds of hours of aligned audio
- from a diverse set of readers
- about a diverse set of topics
- in a well-researched textual genre
- licensed under a free license (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Annotations can be mapped back to the original html
- phoneme-level alignments
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard 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) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) | The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora | Conformer Transducer WER (%) 8.04% | Automatic Speech Recognition in German: A Detailed Error Analysis | — | 1 | 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 1. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition in German: A Detailed Error Analysis | 0 | 1 | 3 Aug 2022 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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