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+license: cc0-1.0
+task_categories:
+- automatic-speech-recognition
+language:
+- nb
+- nn
+- 'no'
+tags:
+- dialects
+- podcasts
+- live-events
+- conversational
+- speech
+---
+# Dataset Card for Sprakbanken/nb_samtale
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+- **Homepage:** <https://www.nb.no/sprakbanken/>
+- **Repository:** <https://www.nb.no/sprakbanken/en/resource-catalogue/oai-nb-no-sbr-85/>
+- **Paper:** <https://www.nb.no/sbfil/taledata/NB_Samtale_About_the_corpus.pdf>
+- **Point of Contact:** [Språkbanken](mailto:[email protected])
+
+### Dataset Summary
+
+NB Samtale is a speech corpus made by the Language Bank at the National Library of Norway. The corpus contains orthographically transcribed speech from podcasts and recordings of live events at the National Library. The corpus is intended as an open source dataset for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) development, and is specifically aimed at improving ASR systems’ handle on conversational speech.
+
+The corpus consists of 12,080 segments, a total of 24 hours transcribed speech from 69 speakers. The corpus ensures both gender and dialect variation, and speakers from five broad dialect areas are represented. Both Bokmål and Nynorsk transcriptions are present in the corpus, with Nynorsk making up approximately 25% of the transcriptions.
+
+We greatly appreciate feedback and suggestions for improvements.
+
+
+### Supported Tasks
+
+- Automatic Speech Recognition for verbatim transcriptions of conversational speech, as well as for standardised, orthographic transcriptions.
+- Speaker Diarization: The sentence segments all have a speaker ID, which is unique per speaker, and the same speaker will have the same speaker ID across source files.
+- Audio classification: Each segment could be classified with one of the metadata features.
+
+### Languages
+
+- Norwegian dialects: eastern, western, south-western, central, northern (audio)
+- Norwegian bokmål (text)
+- Norwegian nynorsk (text)
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+### Data Instances
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+### Data Fields
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+### Data Splits
+
+train, dev, test
+
+## Dataset Creation
+
+### Curation Rationale
+
+See the [official dataset documentation](https://www.nb.no/sbfil/taledata/NB_Samtale_About_the_corpus.pdf) for more details.
+
+### Source Data
+
+#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+#### Who are the source language producers?
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+### Annotations
+
+#### Annotation process
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+#### Who are the annotators?
+
+The Norwegian Language Bank (Språkbanken).
+
+### Personal and Sensitive Information
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+## Considerations for Using the Data
+
+### Social Impact of Dataset
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+### Discussion of Biases
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+### Other Known Limitations
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+## Additional Information
+
+### Dataset Curators
+
+The content of the dataset was created by the Norwegian Language Bank (Språkbanken) at the National Library of Norway.
+[Per Erik Solberg](mailto:[email protected]), [Marie Iversdatter Røsok](mailto:[email protected]), and [Ingerid Løyning Dale](mailto:[email protected]) all contributed in making this into a HuggingFace Dataset.
+<!-- Thanks to the HuggingFace team for assistance.  -->
+
+
+### Licensing Information
+
+The sound and the transcriptions are released under the [CC-ZERO-license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). The curation of the HuggingFace Dataset is released under [CC-BY-SA-3-license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
+
+### Citation Information
+
+[More Information Needed]
+
+### Contributions
+
+[More Information Needed]