Donate Speech: Collecting and Sharing a Large-Scale Speech Database for Social Sciences, Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation

Abstract

<p> <span>The Donate Speech campaign aimed to collect 10,000 hours of ordinary, </span><span>casual Finnish speech to be used for studying language as well as for develop</span><span>-</span><span>ing technology and services that can be readily used in the languages spoken in </span><span>Finland. In this project, particular attention has been devoted to allowing for both </span><span>academic and commercial use of the material. Even though this ambitious target </span><span>currently seems likely to evade us, the Donate Speech campaign has managed </span><span>to amass an extensive resource of more than 4,000 hours of Finnish colloquial </span><span>speech comprising more than 220,000 speech recordings by more than 25,000 </span><span>speakers from all over Finland in just a few months.</span><span></span><br></p><p><span>Keywords:</span><span> speech resources, colloquial speech, large-scale data collection, aca</span><span>-</span><span>demic and commercial use</span> <br></p>