CHiME-7 / CHiME-8 DASR

by CHiME Challenge organizers

Distant-mic ASR challenge — multi-channel meeting transcription frontier.

TL;DR

Distant-mic ASR challenge — multi-channel meeting transcription frontier.

Best for state-of-the-art distant-microphone ASR + diarization (DASR) challenge submissions. Pricing: research-only.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
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Last push
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Pricing
research-only
Platforms
Web

What it is

CHiME-7/8 DASR (Distant Automatic Speech Recognition) is the multi-corpus far-field meeting challenge. Combines CHiME-6 + Mixer-6 + DiPCo + NOTSOFAR-1 in one evaluation. Research-only.

Best for: State-of-the-art distant-microphone ASR + diarization (DASR) challenge submissions.
Watch out for: Custom CHiME license · research-only · CHiME-8 (2024) bundles CHiME-6 + Mixer-6 + DiPCo + NOTSOFAR-1. Cite: Cornell et al., CHiME 2023/2024.

Install / use

https://www.chimechallenge.org/current/  # registration per edition

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

CHiME-7 / CHiME-8 DASR vs Whipscribe

FeatureCHiME-7 / CHiME-8 DASRWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingresearch-onlyfree beta
Speaker diarizationYesYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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