VoxForge

by VoxForge community

Crowd-sourced multilingual read-speech corpus — the open-source pre-Common-Voice corpus.

TL;DR

Crowd-sourced multilingual read-speech corpus — the open-source pre-Common-Voice corpus.

Best for older open-source ASR baselines; languages without modern open corpora. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

VoxForge predates Common Voice and remains the largest GPL-licensed crowd-sourced read-speech archive. Best for low-resource languages or contexts requiring strict copyleft. License: GPL-3.0.

Best for: Older open-source ASR baselines; languages without modern open corpora.
Watch out for: GPL-3.0 · variable quality · superseded by Common Voice for most languages. Cite: VoxForge.org, 2007–.

Install / use

http://www.voxforge.org/

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported12
HIPAA eligibleNo

VoxForge vs Whipscribe

FeatureVoxForgeWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages1299
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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