AMI Meeting Corpus

by Idiap / Edinburgh / Brno

100h multi-microphone meeting recordings with diarization + speaker labels.

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TL;DR

Best for speaker diarization, meeting transcription, overlapping-speech ASR benchmarks. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
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Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Web, HuggingFace

What it is

The AMI Meeting Corpus is 100 hours of 4-person scenario meetings with synchronized multi-microphone audio, video, and rich annotations (diarization, dialogue acts, head-pose). The canonical meeting-ASR benchmark. License: CC BY 4.0.

Best for: Speaker diarization, meeting transcription, overlapping-speech ASR benchmarks.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 · 100h meeting audio · 4-speaker scenarios · IHM (close-talking mic) vs SDM (single distant mic) vs MDM (multi-distant) splits. Cite: Carletta et al., MLMI 2005.

Install / use

from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('edinburghcstr/ami', 'ihm')

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

AMI Meeting Corpus vs Whipscribe

FeatureAMI Meeting CorpusWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationYesYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsWeb, HuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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