GigaSpeech 2
by SpeechColab
30,000h multilingual evolution of GigaSpeech — Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese launch.
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TL;DR
Best for low-resource Southeast Asian language ASR pretraining at scale. Pricing: research-only.
Category
Open source
License
Apache-2.0
Stars
★ 199
Last push
2026-04-28
Pricing
research-only
Platforms
HuggingFace
What it is
GigaSpeech 2 brings the same crawl-and-pseudo-label pipeline to Thai (10kh), Indonesian (6kh), Vietnamese (6kh). Designed for low-resource ASR pretraining where MLS doesn't reach.
Best for: Low-resource Southeast Asian language ASR pretraining at scale.
Watch out for: Same restrictions as GigaSpeech v1 · YouTube-sourced · noisy-pseudo-labels via cross-lingual transfer + filtering. Cite: Yang et al., Interspeech 2024.
Watch out for: Same restrictions as GigaSpeech v1 · YouTube-sourced · noisy-pseudo-labels via cross-lingual transfer + filtering. Cite: Yang et al., Interspeech 2024.
Install / use
from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('speechcolab/gigaspeech2', 'th')Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 3 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Links
GigaSpeech 2 vs Whipscribe
| Feature | GigaSpeech 2 | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Open source | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | research-only | $4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup |
| Speaker diarization | No | Yes |
| Word timestamps | No | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | 3 | 99 |
| Platforms | HuggingFace | Web, API, MCP |
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