AISHELL-1

by Beijing Shell Shell Technology

178h Mandarin read-speech corpus — open Chinese ASR baseline.

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TL;DR

Best for open Mandarin ASR benchmark — the LibriSpeech-equivalent for Chinese. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

AISHELL-1 (OpenSLR-33) is 178h of read Mandarin from 400 speakers. The canonical open Mandarin ASR benchmark. License: Apache-2.0.

Best for: Open Mandarin ASR benchmark — the LibriSpeech-equivalent for Chinese.
Watch out for: Apache-2.0 · read prompts · 400 speakers · single language (Mandarin). Cite: Bu et al., O-COCOSDA 2017.

Install / use

from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('AISHELL/AISHELL-1')

Features

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

AISHELL-1 vs Whipscribe

FeatureAISHELL-1Whipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsOpenSLR, HuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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