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+pretty_name: Thai Conversational Speech Dataset
+language:
+- th
+license: other
+license_name: speechdata-commercial
+task_categories:
+- automatic-speech-recognition
+- text-to-speech
+tags:
+- speech
+- audio
+- conversational-speech
+- asr
+- tts
+- thai
+viewer: false
+---
+
+# Thai Conversational Speech Dataset
+
+2,000 hours of spontaneous two-person conversations in Thai, recorded in Thailand with 200 vetted native speakers. Dual-channel audio, time-aligned human-verified transcripts and speaker metadata, licensed for commercial ASR, TTS and voice AI training.
+
+**This repository is the dataset card only.** The audio is licensed commercially and isn't hosted on Hugging Face. Free samples (audio, matching transcripts and the metadata schema) are sent on request: [request Thai samples](https://www.speechdata.ai/datasets/thai?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dataset_card).
+
+## Specifications
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| Language | Thai |
+| Recorded in | Thailand |
+| Speech type | Spontaneous two-person conversations |
+| Volume | 2,000 hours |
+| Speakers | 200 vetted native speakers |
+| Audio | Dual-channel, one channel per speaker |
+| Transcripts | Time-aligned, human-verified |
+| Speaker metadata | Age, gender, region, recording device |
+| Consent | Signed commercial-use consent from every speaker |
+| License | Commercial, for training and evaluation |
+| Price | $75 per hour of audio, volume discounts available |
+
+## What makes Thai hard for speech recognition
+
+Thai has five tones that change meaning, long and short vowels, and a script that writes words without spaces. That makes recognition and scoring tricky, since even counting word errors needs a word segmentation step first.
+
+## Built for
+
+- Automatic speech recognition (ASR / STT)
+- Text-to-speech and voice synthesis prosody
+- Voice agents and IVR for Thailand
+- Speaker diarization and turn-taking models
+- Speech LLM and audio-understanding fine-tuning
+
+## Getting the data
+
+Request samples with a company email on the [Thai dataset page](https://www.speechdata.ai/datasets/thai?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dataset_card) and the team replies with representative audio and transcripts so you can check quality, accents and transcript conventions before you buy. Need more hours, another dialect or your own recording setup? SpeechData.ai also [collects speech data to spec](https://www.speechdata.ai/custom-speech-data-collection?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dataset_card), or you can [book a call](https://www.speechdata.ai/book?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dataset_card).
+
+## About SpeechData.ai
+
+[SpeechData.ai](https://www.speechdata.ai/?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dataset_card) licenses conversational speech datasets in 60 languages and dialects and runs custom speech data collection. It's part of [Spirelight](https://www.spirelight.ai). Browse the [full catalog](https://www.speechdata.ai/datasets?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dataset_card).