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WenetSpeech

Overview

WenetSpeech is a large-scale Mandarin Chinese speech corpus with over 10,000 hours of multi-domain transcribed audio data, designed for speech recognition research.

Task Description

  • Task Type: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
  • Input: Audio recordings with Mandarin Chinese speech
  • Output: Transcribed text in Chinese
  • Domain: Multi-domain (internet, meeting)

Key Features

  • Large-scale Mandarin Chinese speech corpus (10,000+ hours)
  • Multi-domain coverage: internet content, meetings
  • High-quality transcriptions
  • Suitable for evaluating Chinese ASR systems
  • Supports mixed Chinese-English text evaluation

Evaluation Notes

  • Default configuration uses test_meeting split
  • Subsets by domain: dev (development), test_meeting (meeting domain)
  • Primary metric: MER (Mixed Error Rate)
  • MER tokenizes Chinese characters individually and English words as whole tokens
  • Prompt: "Please listen to the audio and transcribe what you hear"

Properties

Property Value
Benchmark Name wenet_speech
Dataset ID lmms-lab/WenetSpeech
Paper N/A
Tags Audio, SpeechRecognition
Metrics mer
Default Shots 0-shot
Evaluation Split test_meeting

Data Statistics

Metric Value
Total Samples 22,195
Prompt Length (Mean) 161 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max) 161 / 161 chars

Per-Subset Statistics:

Subset Samples Prompt Mean Prompt Min Prompt Max
dev 13,825 161 161 161
test_meeting 8,370 161 161 161

Audio Statistics:

Metric Value
Total Audio Files 22,195
Audio per Sample min: 1, max: 1, mean: 1
Formats wav

Sample Example

Subset: dev

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "c30c80b4",
      "content": [
        {
          "text": "Please listen to the audio and transcribe what you hear. Please only provide the transcription without any additional commentary. Do not include any punctuation."
        },
        {
          "audio": "[BASE64_AUDIO: wav, ~175.3KB]",
          "format": "wav"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "target": "对我做了介绍啊那么我想说的是呢大家如果对我的研究感兴趣呢嗯",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "metadata": {
    "text": "对我做了介绍啊那么我想说的是呢大家如果对我的研究感兴趣呢嗯"
  }
}

Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

Please listen to the audio and transcribe what you hear. Please only provide the transcription without any additional commentary. Do not include any punctuation.

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets wenet_speech \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['wenet_speech'],
    dataset_args={
        'wenet_speech': {
            # subset_list: ['dev', 'test_meeting']  # optional, evaluate specific subsets
        }
    },
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)