NTU Speech Processing Lab

by National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University Speech Lab — S3PRL + SUPERB origins.

TL;DR

National Taiwan University Speech Lab — S3PRL + SUPERB origins.

Best for self-supervised speech representations; SUPERB benchmark family. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

NTU Speech Lab (Hung-yi Lee group) shipped S3PRL + SUPERB + ML-SUPERB — the canonical SSL probing benchmark and toolkit. Driving force behind multilingual self-supervised speech evaluation.

Best for: Self-supervised speech representations; SUPERB benchmark family.
Watch out for: Academic; toolkits Apache-2.0.

Install / use

https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/  # lead: Hung-yi Lee

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported0
HIPAA eligibleNo

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FeatureNTU Speech Processing LabWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages099
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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