VoxPopuli
400k hours of European Parliament speeches in 23 EU languages.
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Upstream is archived. VoxPopuli’s repository has been set read-only by its owner, so there are no further releases, fixes, or security patches. The last commit landed 2023-04-02. It can still be cloned and run, and forks may be maintained elsewhere. See the repository.
Best for multilingual self-supervised pretraining; cross-lingual ASR; speech translation (15 source × 15 target). Pricing: free.
What it is
VoxPopuli is 400k unlabeled + 1.8k transcribed + 17.3k interpreted hours of EU Parliament plenary recordings, 2009–2020. The de-facto multilingual pretraining corpus for European languages. License: CC0.
Watch out for: CC0 1.0 · domain-specific (parliamentary speech) · formal register · varying per-language coverage. Cite: Wang et al., ACL 2021.
Install / use
from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('facebook/voxpopuli', 'en')Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 23 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
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VoxPopuli vs Whipscribe
| Feature | VoxPopuli | 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 | 23 | 99 |
| Platforms | HuggingFace, GitHub | Web, API, MCP |
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