VoxConverse
by Oxford VGG
50h audio-visual diarization corpus — wild YouTube speakers in conversation.
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TL;DR
Best for diarization benchmarks with realistic in-the-wild audio. Pricing: research-only.
Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
★ 171
Last push
2022-07-26
Pricing
research-only
Platforms
Web, GitHub
What it is
VoxConverse provides ~50h of audio-visual diarization data with speaker overlap, music, and crowd noise — harder than AMI. License: CC BY 4.0 metadata.
Best for: Diarization benchmarks with realistic in-the-wild audio.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 metadata · YouTube-sourced · variable speaker count per recording (1–20+). Cite: Chung et al., Interspeech 2020.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 metadata · YouTube-sourced · variable speaker count per recording (1–20+). Cite: Chung et al., Interspeech 2020.
Install / use
git clone https://github.com/joonson/voxconverseFeatures
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 1 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
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VoxConverse vs Whipscribe
| Feature | VoxConverse | 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 | Yes | Yes |
| Word timestamps | No | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | 1 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, GitHub | Web, API, MCP |
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