Europe · Spain
Catalan conversational speech dataset
500 hours of spontaneous Catalan conversations recorded in Spain across 50 vetted native speakers. Dual-channel audio with time-aligned transcripts, speaker metadata (age, gender, region, device), and full chain-of-consent documentation. Licensed for commercial ASR, TTS, and voice AI training.
Dataset specifications
| Language | Catalan |
|---|---|
| Recorded in | Spain |
| Speech type | Spontaneous two-person conversations |
| Volume | 500 hours |
| Speakers | 50 vetted native speakers |
| Audio | Dual-channel (one channel per speaker) |
| Transcripts | Time-aligned, human-verified |
| Metadata | Age, gender, region, recording device |
| License | Commercial (training & evaluation) |
| Price | $75 per hour of audio |
Need more hours, another dialect or your own recording setup? We collect speech data to spec.
Built for
Training and evaluating speech models that must handle real Catalan speech:
- Automatic speech recognition (ASR / STT)
- Text-to-speech & voice synthesis prosody
- Voice agents and IVR for Spain
- Speaker diarization & turn-taking models
- Speech LLM / audio-understanding fine-tuning
Why conversational data?
Models trained on read speech consistently underperform on spontaneous audio. Disfluencies, overlap, and natural speech rates aren’t in the training distribution. This dataset closes that gap for Catalan. Read more in our guide to conversational vs. scripted speech data.
Free samples
Audit the Catalan data yourself
Share your company email and we’ll email you representative audio, matching transcripts, and the metadata schema. Check audio quality, transcript accuracy, and speaker diversity before you spend a dollar.
Public alternatives
Public Catalan speech data vs. this dataset
| Source | What it is | License | Commercial training |
|---|---|---|---|
| ParlamentParla (opens in a new tab)Projecte AINA (projecte-aina) | Catalan Parliament plenary sessions from 2007 to 2018 aligned with transcriptions: 211 hours of clean and 400 hours of other quality segments. | CC BY 4.0 (the card notes the content belongs to the Catalan Parliament and is released per its terms of use) | Allowed |
| Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech 27.0 (opens in a new tab)Mozilla Foundation (Mozilla Data Collective) | Read Catalan sentences with text transcripts, 3,940 hours recorded; a separate Spontaneous Speech release has under one hour of answers to prompted questions. | CC0 1.0 | Allowed |
| FLEURS (opens in a new tab)Google | Read sentences from the FLoRes translation benchmark, recorded for 102 languages; training sets hold around 10 hours per language. | CC BY 4.0 | Allowed |
The listed Catalan sets are parliamentary or read, plus a small spontaneous Common Voice set; ours is two-person conversation recorded in Spain, one channel per speaker.
Licenses as published by each source, checked October 2026. Check the current terms before use.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does the Catalan speech dataset include?
500 hours of spontaneous two-person conversations from 50 vetted native speakers recorded in Spain, delivered as dual-channel audio with time-aligned transcripts, speaker metadata (age, gender, region, device), and consent documentation.
What makes Catalan hard for speech recognition?
Most Catalan speakers also speak Spanish and switch between the two, so a model has to tell them apart word by word. Catalan has sounds Spanish lacks, like the neutral vowel and open "e" and "o", and Barcelona, Valencian and Balearic speech differ.
Is there free Catalan speech data?
Yes, ParlamentParla, Mozilla Common Voice and FLEURS are free for commercial use. This dataset is spontaneous two-person conversation recorded in Spain, with speaker metadata, one channel per speaker and signed commercial-use consent.
Can I use this Catalan dataset commercially?
Yes. The dataset is licensed for commercial use, including training ASR, TTS, and other voice-AI models. Every speaker has signed explicit commercial-use consent, and we provide the full consent chain for your legal review.
How much does the Catalan speech dataset cost?
Pricing is $75 per hour of audio. Volume discounts are available for full-dataset and multi-language purchases. Contact us for a quote.
Can I evaluate samples before buying?
Yes. Request samples with your company email, and we'll email you representative audio files and matching transcripts so your team can audit quality before committing.
$85/hr