Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

by LDC

80h of read newspaper sentences — foundational read-speech ASR corpus from 1992.

TL;DR

80h of read newspaper sentences — foundational read-speech ASR corpus from 1992.

Best for historical ASR baselines + read-speech academic comparisons. Pricing: paid.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
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Last push
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Pricing
paid
Platforms
LDC

What it is

WSJ (LDC93S6A + LDC94S13A) is 80 hours of read Wall Street Journal sentences — the original ARPA HUB ASR benchmark. Still cited for legacy comparisons. LDC paid.

Best for: Historical ASR baselines + read-speech academic comparisons.
Watch out for: LDC license · paid · 16 kHz · WSJ0 + WSJ1 splits · 5k vs 20k vocab evaluation conditions. Cite: Paul & Baker, HLT 1992.

Install / use

https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S6A  # LDC membership

Features

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

Wall Street Journal (WSJ) vs Whipscribe

FeatureWall Street Journal (WSJ)Whipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingpaidfree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsLDCWeb, API, MCP

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