PRESTO

by Google Research

Multilingual conversational SLU dataset — 6 languages with disfluencies + code-switching.

TL;DR

Multilingual conversational SLU dataset — 6 languages with disfluencies + code-switching.

Best for realistic SLU with disfluencies (revisions / restarts), code-switching, multi-turn context. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
GitHub, HuggingFace

What it is

PRESTO is Google's multilingual SLU corpus — 6 languages of conversational task-oriented dialogue with disfluencies, code-switching, and multi-turn context. License: CC BY 4.0.

Best for: Realistic SLU with disfluencies (revisions / restarts), code-switching, multi-turn context.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 · text + audio in en, es, de, fr, ja, hi · ~550k utterances. Cite: Goel et al., EMNLP 2023.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/google-research-datasets/presto

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported6
HIPAA eligibleNo

PRESTO vs Whipscribe

FeaturePRESTOWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages699
PlatformsGitHub, HuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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