UP - DSP - Philippine Languages Database (UP-DSP-PLD)
License:
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Steward:
UP EEEI - Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
Task: ASR
Release Date: 3/19/2026
Format: WAV, LOG
Size: 45.63 GB
Share
Description
This dataset contains multilingual, text and speech pairs for ten Philippine languages namely Filipino, English, Cebuano, Kapampangan, Hiligaynon, Ilokano, Bikolano, Waray, and Tausug. The dataset contains over 454 hours of recordings, covering multiple domains in news, medical, education, tourism and spontaneous speech. The applicability of the corpus has also been demonstrated in adult and children ASR, phoneme transcriber, voice conversion, and TTS applications.
Specifics
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.htmlConsiderations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
The dataset is open source and provided “as is,” without warranties or guarantees of any kind, and without any obligation to provide technical support. The dataset may be used solely for research purposes. Redistribution, sharing with third parties, or use of the dataset for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited without prior written consent.
Forbidden Usage
You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in this dataset.
Processes
Ethical Review
Participants were informed about the details of the data collection process, including the project’s funding information, the scope on the use of the recordings (for research purposes only), their rights regarding access and withdrawal of their recordings, and the anonymization of their personal data prior to the release of the corpus. Participants were made to sign a participation agreement document.
Intended Use
This dataset is designed for research in ASR, phoneme transcription, voice conversion, and TTS applications.