---
license: mit
language:
- kk
tags:
- audio
- speech
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
---
# Kazakh Speech Corpus 2 (KSC2) 

This dataset card describes the KSC2, an industrial-scale, open-source speech corpus for the Kazakh language.

**Paper:** [KSC2: An Industrial-Scale Open-Source Kazakh Speech Corpus](https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2022/mussakhojayeva22_interspeech.html)

**Summary:** KSC2 corpus subsumes the previously introduced two corpora: Kazakh Speech Corpus and Kazakh Text-To-Speech 2, and supplements additional data from other sources like tv programs, radio, senate, and podcasts. In total, KSC2 contains around 1.2k hours of high-quality transcribed data comprising over 600k utterances.

**GitHub Repository**: [https://github.com/IS2AI/Kazakh_ASR](https://github.com/IS2AI/Kazakh_ASR)

**Citation:** 
```bibtex
@inproceedings{mussakhojayeva22_interspeech,
  title     = {KSC2: An Industrial-Scale Open-Source Kazakh Speech Corpus},
  author    = {Saida Mussakhojayeva and Yerbolat Khassanov and Huseyin {Atakan Varol}},
  year      = {2022},
  booktitle = {Interspeech 2022},
  pages     = {1367--1371},
  doi       = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-421},
  issn      = {2958-1796},
}
```