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annotations_creators:
- other
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
language:
- en
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- audio-classification
task_ids:
- keyword-spotting
pretty_name: SpeechCommands
dataset_info:
- config_name: v0.01
features:
- name: file
dtype: string
- name: audio
dtype:
audio:
sampling_rate: 16000
- name: label
dtype:
class_label:
names:
'0': 'yes'
'1': 'no'
'2': up
'3': down
'4': left
'5': right
'6': 'on'
'7': 'off'
'8': stop
'9': go
'10': zero
'11': one
'12': two
'13': three
'14': four
'15': five
'16': six
'17': seven
'18': eight
'19': nine
'20': bed
'21': bird
'22': cat
'23': dog
'24': happy
'25': house
'26': marvin
'27': sheila
'28': tree
'29': wow
'30': _silence_
- name: is_unknown
dtype: bool
- name: speaker_id
dtype: string
- name: utterance_id
dtype: int8
splits:
- name: train
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num_examples: 51093
- name: validation
num_bytes: 217204539
num_examples: 6799
- name: test
num_bytes: 98979965
num_examples: 3081
download_size: 1454702755
dataset_size: 1942468128
- config_name: v0.02
features:
- name: file
dtype: string
- name: audio
dtype:
audio:
sampling_rate: 16000
- name: label
dtype:
class_label:
names:
'0': 'yes'
'1': 'no'
'2': up
'3': down
'4': left
'5': right
'6': 'on'
'7': 'off'
'8': stop
'9': go
'10': zero
'11': one
'12': two
'13': three
'14': four
'15': five
'16': six
'17': seven
'18': eight
'19': nine
'20': bed
'21': bird
'22': cat
'23': dog
'24': happy
'25': house
'26': marvin
'27': sheila
'28': tree
'29': wow
'30': backward
'31': forward
'32': follow
'33': learn
'34': visual
'35': _silence_
- name: is_unknown
dtype: bool
- name: speaker_id
dtype: string
- name: utterance_id
dtype: int8
splits:
- name: train
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num_examples: 84848
- name: validation
num_bytes: 316435178
num_examples: 9982
- name: test
num_bytes: 157096106
num_examples: 4890
download_size: 2285975869
dataset_size: 3157912956
config_names:
- v0.01
- v0.02
---
# Dataset Card for SpeechCommands
## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
- [Source Data](#source-data)
- [Annotations](#annotations)
- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
- [Contributions](#contributions)
## Dataset Description
- **Homepage:** https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/speech_commands
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed]
- **Paper:** [Speech Commands: A Dataset for Limited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03209.pdf)
- **Leaderboard:** [More Information Needed]
- **Point of Contact:** Pete Warden, petewarden@google.com
### Dataset Summary
This is a set of one-second .wav audio files, each containing a single spoken
English word or background noise. These words are from a small set of commands, and are spoken by a
variety of different speakers. This data set is designed to help train simple
machine learning models. It is covered in more detail at [https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03209](https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03209).
Version 0.01 of the data set (configuration `"v0.01"`) was released on August 3rd 2017 and contains
64,727 audio files.
Version 0.02 of the data set (configuration `"v0.02"`) was released on April 11th 2018 and
contains 105,829 audio files.
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
* `keyword-spotting`: the dataset can be used to train and evaluate keyword
spotting systems. The task is to detect preregistered keywords by classifying utterances
into a predefined set of words. The task is usually performed on-device for the
fast response time. Thus, accuracy, model size, and inference time are all crucial.
### Languages
The language data in SpeechCommands is in English (BCP-47 `en`).
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
Example of a core word (`"label"` is a word, `"is_unknown"` is `False`):
```python
{
"file": "no/7846fd85_nohash_0.wav",
"audio": {
"path": "no/7846fd85_nohash_0.wav",
"array": array([ -0.00021362, -0.00027466, -0.00036621, ..., 0.00079346,
0.00091553, 0.00079346]),
"sampling_rate": 16000
},
"label": 1, # "no"
"is_unknown": False,
"speaker_id": "7846fd85",
"utterance_id": 0
}
```
Example of an auxiliary word (`"label"` is a word, `"is_unknown"` is `True`)
```python
{
"file": "tree/8b775397_nohash_0.wav",
"audio": {
"path": "tree/8b775397_nohash_0.wav",
"array": array([ -0.00854492, -0.01339722, -0.02026367, ..., 0.00274658,
0.00335693, 0.0005188]),
"sampling_rate": 16000
},
"label": 28, # "tree"
"is_unknown": True,
"speaker_id": "1b88bf70",
"utterance_id": 0
}
```
Example of background noise (`_silence_`) class:
```python
{
"file": "_silence_/doing_the_dishes.wav",
"audio": {
"path": "_silence_/doing_the_dishes.wav",
"array": array([ 0. , 0. , 0. , ..., -0.00592041,
-0.00405884, -0.00253296]),
"sampling_rate": 16000
},
"label": 30, # "_silence_"
"is_unknown": False,
"speaker_id": "None",
"utterance_id": 0 # doesn't make sense here
}
```
### Data Fields
* `file`: relative audio filename inside the original archive.
* `audio`: dictionary containing a relative audio filename,
a decoded audio array, and the sampling rate. Note that when accessing
the audio column: `dataset[0]["audio"]` the audio is automatically decoded
and resampled to `dataset.features["audio"].sampling_rate`.
Decoding and resampling of a large number of audios might take a significant
amount of time. Thus, it is important to first query the sample index before
the `"audio"` column, i.e. `dataset[0]["audio"]` should always be preferred
over `dataset["audio"][0]`.
* `label`: either word pronounced in an audio sample or background noise (`_silence_`) class.
Note that it's an integer value corresponding to the class name.
* `is_unknown`: if a word is auxiliary. Equals to `False` if a word is a core word or `_silence_`,
`True` if a word is an auxiliary word.
* `speaker_id`: unique id of a speaker. Equals to `None` if label is `_silence_`.
* `utterance_id`: incremental id of a word utterance within the same speaker.
### Data Splits
The dataset has two versions (= configurations): `"v0.01"` and `"v0.02"`. `"v0.02"`
contains more words (see section [Source Data](#source-data) for more details).
| | train | validation | test |
|----- |------:|-----------:|-----:|
| v0.01 | 51093 | 6799 | 3081 |
| v0.02 | 84848 | 9982 | 4890 |
Note that in train and validation sets examples of `_silence_` class are longer than 1 second.
You can use the following code to sample 1-second examples from the longer ones:
```python
def sample_noise(example):
# Use this function to extract random 1 sec slices of each _silence_ utterance,
# e.g. inside `torch.utils.data.Dataset.__getitem__()`
from random import randint
if example["label"] == "_silence_":
random_offset = randint(0, len(example["speech"]) - example["sample_rate"] - 1)
example["speech"] = example["speech"][random_offset : random_offset + example["sample_rate"]]
return example
```
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
The primary goal of the dataset is to provide a way to build and test small
models that can detect a single word from a set of target words and differentiate it
from background noise or unrelated speech with as few false positives as possible.
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The audio files were collected using crowdsourcing, see
[aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/open_speech_recording](https://github.com/petewarden/extract_loudest_section)
for some of the open source audio collection code that was used. The goal was to gather examples of
people speaking single-word commands, rather than conversational sentences, so
they were prompted for individual words over the course of a five minute
session.
In version 0.01 thirty different words were recoded: "Yes", "No", "Up", "Down", "Left",
"Right", "On", "Off", "Stop", "Go", "Zero", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine",
"Bed", "Bird", "Cat", "Dog", "Happy", "House", "Marvin", "Sheila", "Tree", "Wow".
In version 0.02 more words were added: "Backward", "Forward", "Follow", "Learn", "Visual".
In both versions, ten of them are used as commands by convention: "Yes", "No", "Up", "Down", "Left",
"Right", "On", "Off", "Stop", "Go". Other words are considered to be auxiliary (in current implementation
it is marked by `True` value of `"is_unknown"` feature). Their function is to teach a model to distinguish core words
from unrecognized ones.
The `_silence_` label contains a set of longer audio clips that are either recordings or
a mathematical simulation of noise.
#### Who are the source language producers?
The audio files were collected using crowdsourcing.
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
Labels are the list of words prepared in advances.
Speakers were prompted for individual words over the course of a five minute
session.
#### Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed]
### Personal and Sensitive Information
The dataset consists of people who have donated their voice online. You agree to not attempt to determine the identity of speakers in this dataset.
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
[More Information Needed]
### Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed]
### Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed]
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
[More Information Needed]
### Licensing Information
Creative Commons BY 4.0 License ((CC-BY-4.0)[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode]).
### Citation Information
```
@article{speechcommandsv2,
author = { {Warden}, P.},
title = "{Speech Commands: A Dataset for Limited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition}",
journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
eprint = {1804.03209},
primaryClass = "cs.CL",
keywords = {Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction},
year = 2018,
month = apr,
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03209},
}
```
### Contributions
Thanks to [@polinaeterna](https://github.com/polinaeterna) for adding this dataset.