Request for access to MinSpeech dataset

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by BraveHeart1 - opened

Hi, I submitted an access request for the MinSpeech dataset on Oct 13.
My Hugging Face username is BraveHeart.
I plan to use the dataset for non-commercial research on Southern Min ASR and Qwen3-ASR fine-tuning.
The dataset will only be used for research purposes and will not be redistributed.
Could you please review my access request when convenient?
Thank you very much.

hi mate. thanks so much for the request.
tldr, i am not granting the access unless you insist.

i was planning to fine tune asr models and to understand my freinds talking. most ai recommend this dataset. i used the pipeline on free servers to bypass ip blocking by bilibili, and thus huggingface helps. to avoid problems, i set access before exporing, and after exploring, i decide to give up this dataset. i am planning to delete this repo unless you really need them (if you insist, i can set it to private and share invitation, please then fork and ping me to delete)

  1. the data is not clean. the are full of background music, mandarin and even english
  2. materials are all copyrighted. i am not sure if it can fall into fair-use, but its quality does not worth it.

if you still insteresting in hokkien languages, here are some advices (from a 北仔, someome.who cannot speech min language):

  1. there are typically 4 accents 厦漳泉台. but they are so different and may be trained sep. (my freind knows 漳, its nearly as same as 台, and thus using taiwanese will be efficient. she can hardly understand the others.)
  2. there are more high quality materials in bilibili and then youtube. several taiwan platforms are useful as well. i kept some links:
    which she can understand (by accent, some shows are researching old words which are barely used):
    【【厦门卫视】闽南话听讲大会(2016)-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/npGhiAw
    【还乡杂记-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/TAObimc
    【摸米龟(闽南童谣 可爱童声配乐版)-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/P17swVY
    【闽南谚语:雨沃上元灯 日曝清明种-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/FLFG7Hm
    【闽南语漳浦话讲古《金浦故事》-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/qNbIMWH
    【闽南语漳浦话节目《金浦农家》-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/xtsjmhf
    【泉州人可以用闽南话跟漳州人交流吗?-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/vS9F0Pi
    【【厦门卫视】闽南话听讲大会(2016)-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/9rfToye

which she cannot understand:
【今天带你看看闽南老师是怎么教训学生的-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/jfBKr85
【「闽南语配音版」原神序曲PV——「致终幕的欢宴」-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/YMjZ8pT
【裴丽姗闽南话诵读《观书有感》-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/aEkbJoR
【闽南谚语:雨沃上元灯 日曝清明种-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/pfb0LdG
【以泉为名的城市-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/rRmPv4b
【石狮蚶江海上泼水节-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/kYKGqjW
【泉州话诵读:李煜《虞美人·春花秋月何时了》-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/WOy3JnS
【泉州通 陈泗东(蔡长溪版)-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/yIeJblu
【【厦门卫视】闽南话听讲大会 第二季(2017)-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/be3NELR

you may notice the cretiera is quite vague, as she can understand 【厦门卫视】闽南话听讲大会 season one but not two. i have no idea about why, and finnally decide to use taiwanese asr. (there are many good models, check models like https://github.com/adi-gov-tw/Taiwan-Tongues-ASR-CE, some singapore models are good as well)

good luck!

Hi, thanks a lot for the detailed reply and suggestions.

I understand the issues with the dataset, including noise, mixed Mandarin/English content, and copyright concerns. I would still like to access it for non-commercial ASR experiments.

My current plan is to use it as an initial dataset to test the Qwen3-ASR fine-tuning pipeline. I will clean and filter the data myself before training. Cleaner Taiwanese Hokkien and Xiamen/Zhangzhou datasets will be part of my later work.

So yes, I would like to accept your offer of private access. I will fork the repository once I get access and ping you immediately after the fork is complete, so you can delete your copy if needed.

I will not redistribute the dataset.

Thanks again!

Granted. (priv storage is limited, but u should have access anyway)

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Hi, thanks again for granting access.

I have started downloading the dataset locally, but because of network speed and local storage limitations, it will take me some time to complete the download.

I also tried to duplicate the repository to my own Hugging Face account, but Hugging Face does not allow duplication of gated datasets.

Could you please keep the repository available for a little while longer until I finish downloading the data? I will ping you as soon as the download is complete, and then you can delete the repository if you wish.

Thanks a lot for your help!

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