Tagarela - A Portuguese speech dataset from podcasts
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| author | de Oliveira, Frederico Santos Gris, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Ferreira, Alef Iury Siqueira da Rosa, Augusto Seben Filho, Alexandre Costa Ferro Casanova, Edresson Shulby, Christopher Dane Sousa, Rafael Teixeira Silva, Diogo Fernandes Costa Soares, Anderson da Silva Filho, Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão |
| author_facet | de Oliveira, Frederico Santos Gris, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Ferreira, Alef Iury Siqueira da Rosa, Augusto Seben Filho, Alexandre Costa Ferro Casanova, Edresson Shulby, Christopher Dane Sousa, Rafael Teixeira Silva, Diogo Fernandes Costa Soares, Anderson da Silva Filho, Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão |
| contents | Despite significant advances in speech processing, Portuguese remains under-resourced due to the scarcity of public, large-scale, and high-quality datasets. To address this gap, we present a new dataset, named TAGARELA, composed of over 8,972 hours of podcast audio, specifically curated for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) models. Notably, its scale rivals English's GigaSpeech (10kh), enabling state-of-the-art Portuguese models. To ensure data quality, the corpus was subjected to an audio pre-processing pipeline and subsequently transcribed using a mixed strategy: we applied ASR models that were previously trained on high-fidelity transcriptions generated by proprietary APIs, ensuring a high level of initial accuracy. Finally, to validate the effectiveness of this new resource, we present ASR and TTS models trained exclusively on our dataset and evaluate their performance, demonstrating its potential to drive the development of more robust and natural speech technologies for Portuguese. The dataset is released publicly, available at https://freds0.github.io/TAGARELA/, to foster the development of robust speech technologies. |
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| spellingShingle | Tagarela - A Portuguese speech dataset from podcasts de Oliveira, Frederico Santos Gris, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Ferreira, Alef Iury Siqueira da Rosa, Augusto Seben Filho, Alexandre Costa Ferro Casanova, Edresson Shulby, Christopher Dane Sousa, Rafael Teixeira Silva, Diogo Fernandes Costa Soares, Anderson da Silva Filho, Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Despite significant advances in speech processing, Portuguese remains under-resourced due to the scarcity of public, large-scale, and high-quality datasets. To address this gap, we present a new dataset, named TAGARELA, composed of over 8,972 hours of podcast audio, specifically curated for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) models. Notably, its scale rivals English's GigaSpeech (10kh), enabling state-of-the-art Portuguese models. To ensure data quality, the corpus was subjected to an audio pre-processing pipeline and subsequently transcribed using a mixed strategy: we applied ASR models that were previously trained on high-fidelity transcriptions generated by proprietary APIs, ensuring a high level of initial accuracy. Finally, to validate the effectiveness of this new resource, we present ASR and TTS models trained exclusively on our dataset and evaluate their performance, demonstrating its potential to drive the development of more robust and natural speech technologies for Portuguese. The dataset is released publicly, available at https://freds0.github.io/TAGARELA/, to foster the development of robust speech technologies. |
| title | Tagarela - A Portuguese speech dataset from podcasts |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15326 |