PRESTO
Multilingual conversational SLU dataset — 6 languages with disfluencies + code-switching.
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Upstream is archived. PRESTO’s repository has been set read-only by its owner, so there are no further releases, fixes, or security patches. The last commit landed 2023-03-17. It can still be cloned and run, and forks may be maintained elsewhere. See the repository.
Best for realistic SLU with disfluencies (revisions / restarts), code-switching, multi-turn context. Pricing: free.
What it is
PRESTO is Google's multilingual SLU corpus — 6 languages of conversational task-oriented dialogue with disfluencies, code-switching, and multi-turn context. License: CC BY 4.0.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 · text + audio in en, es, de, fr, ja, hi · ~550k utterances. Cite: Goel et al., EMNLP 2023.
Install / use
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 6 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Links
PRESTO vs Whipscribe
| Feature | PRESTO | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Open source | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | free | $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 | 6 | 99 |
| Platforms | GitHub, HuggingFace | Web, API, MCP |
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