MLCommons Speech

by MLCommons

MLCommons Speech working group — People's Speech + MLPerf speech benchmarks.

TL;DR

MLCommons Speech working group — People's Speech + MLPerf speech benchmarks.

Best for industry-standard ASR training benchmarks + permissively-licensed data releases. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Web

What it is

MLCommons (formerly MLPerf) runs the speech working group that published People's Speech (30kh CC-BY) and the MLPerf ASR benchmarks.

Best for: Industry-standard ASR training benchmarks + permissively-licensed data releases.
Watch out for: Apache-2.0 + CC-BY-SA · industry consortium.

Install / use

https://mlcommons.org/datasets/peoples-speech/

Features

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

MLCommons Speech vs Whipscribe

FeatureMLCommons SpeechWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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