Albanian speech dataset, roughly 500 hours ready to license
Our OTS Albanian speech dataset is roughly 500 hours of Albanian speech, prompts and conversations, already recorded by Albanian speakers in our 30,000+ network, with consent from every speaker for commercial AI training. License it now and train your Albanian speech recognition model without waiting on a new collection.
- ~500 h of Albanian in stock
- ~35,000 h across the OTS pool
- 100% of speakers consented
- ISO 27001 certified
- SOC 2 report under NDA
- GDPR DPAs and HIPAA BAAs on request
What's in the Albanian speech dataset?
The IndecalAI OTS Albanian speech dataset is roughly 500 hours of Albanian speech, prompts and conversations, recorded by Albanian speakers in our network who all consented to commercial AI training. It's already recorded, so you can license it now instead of waiting on a new collection.
Albanian is spoken across the Balkans and a big diaspora in Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and it's a growing outsourcing language. Public Albanian speech data is scarce, so licensed hours go a long way.
Every recording comes with a transcript and metadata about the speaker, the device and the setting, and you can take it as WAV, OGG or another common format. Every order starts with sample clips and a spec sheet, so you can match the data against your model before you agree a licence.
Need more than what's in stock? Albanian speakers from our 30,000+ network record new speech to your brief, and our Albanian data page covers what we collect to order.
Albanian speech dataset at a glance
- Hours
- Roughly 500 hours, already recorded
- Language
- Albanian (Shqip), sq
- Content
- Speech, prompts and conversations
- Consent
- Every speaker consented to commercial AI training
- Speakers
- Albanian speakers from our 30,000+ network
- Audio and transcripts
- Transcripts and metadata with every recording, in WAV, OGG and more
- Licence
- Terms agreed with each customer, in writing
- Price
- Quoted per order
- Samples
- Albanian sample clips sent in reply to your request
- Security
- ISO 27001 certified. SOC 2 report available under NDA. GDPR DPAs and HIPAA BAAs on request.
What comes with every Albanian recording
Every Albanian recording arrives with the details you need to filter, balance and test, in the audio format your pipeline already reads.
| Detail | In the Albanian dataset |
|---|---|
| Speech types | A mix of scripted prompts and natural conversations |
| Recording devices | Mobile phones, laptops and studio microphones |
| Environments | Quiet rooms and noisy, everyday settings |
| Transcripts | Included with every recording |
| Speaker metadata | Speaker details, such as gender and age, for each recording |
| Recording metadata | The device and the setting for each recording |
| Audio formats | WAV, OGG and other common formats |
| Sample rates | Listed for each recording on the spec sheet |
What roughly 500 hours of Albanian speech looks like
Five hundred hours is easy to say and hard to picture. Played back to back, it's about 21 days of Albanian speech without a break, far more than any team can listen to before buying. That's why every order starts with sample clips and a spec sheet.
- ~500 hours of Albanian speech
- ~30,000 minutes
- ~1.8M seconds of audio
- ~21 days, played back to back
Hours here are recorded audio. When you compare quotes, check whether each one counts audio hours or only the parts where someone is talking.
Albanian at a glance, for speech teams
The facts that shape an Albanian speech project, from who speaks it to how it's written. Our Albanian data page covers what we collect to order.
Status
Official language
Official in Albania and Kosovo, and co-official in North Macedonia.
Where it's spoken
Albania and Kosovo
Spoken in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro, with large communities in Italy, Greece and Germany.
Script
Latin alphabet
Written left to right in Latin letters, with ç and ë.
Family
Albanian
Its own branch of the Indo-European family, with no close relatives.
Varieties
Gheg and Tosk
Northern Gheg and southern Tosk differ clearly. The standard is based on Tosk.
Codes
sq · sqi
ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3 codes. Locales speech APIs often use: sq-AL, sq-XK.
Albanian speech dataset, voice dataset or speech corpus?
Buyers search for the same data under different names. Here's what each one usually means, and how our Albanian data fits.
Albanian speech dataset
The general term
Recorded Albanian speech with details about each recording, for training and testing speech models. The name this page uses.
Albanian voice dataset
Usually the same thing
Some teams mean voice for text-to-speech or speaker recognition, which needs cleaner audio. Part of our data was recorded in a studio, so ask for those recordings.
Albanian audio dataset
A wider term
It can include music or background sound. Ours is speech audio: Albanian speech, prompts and conversations.
Albanian speech corpus
The research name
A structured collection of recordings and their details. Commercial datasets are corpora too, licensed instead of published.
Albanian ASR or speech-to-text dataset
Speech plus what was said
For training a model that turns Albanian audio into text. Every recording in our Albanian dataset comes with a transcript.
Kosovo Albanian speech data
Gheg speech
Albanian in Kosovo is Gheg and sounds different from Tirana. Ask which regions are in the hours you license.
What makes Albanian hard for speech recognition
Where Albanian speech recognition usually goes wrong, and how to spot it in a sample before you buy.
Italian and English words in Albanian
Albanian speakers mix in Italian and English, and diaspora speakers mix in Greek or German. Listen for how much mixing is in a sample.
The letter ë
Albanian ë is a separate letter, but people often type it as e. Check that the transcripts keep ë and ç.
Accents across Albanian speakers
Tirana, Shkodër, Pristina and southern Albanian speech carry different sounds and words. Check that the speaker mix covers your users.
Gheg and Tosk
Gheg speakers in the north and Kosovo say many words differently from the Tosk-based standard, like nasal vowels and ne for në.
What teams build with an Albanian speech dataset
The projects Albanian speech data usually ends up in. They describe the work, not who it was for.
Albanian speech recognition
Train or fine-tune an Albanian speech-to-text model, or adapt a multilingual model so it handles Albanian well.
Voice bots and IVR
Teach a voice bot how Albanian callers actually ask for things, in the words and accents they use.
Customer service calls
Albanian speech for models that route, transcribe or summarize customer calls about accounts, orders and claims.
Voice in the car and at home
An Albanian base for in-car assistants and smart devices, before recording commands in the real setting.
Support and speech analytics
Albanian conversations for models that find intent, sentiment or topics in support calls and chats.
Testing an Albanian model
Held-back Albanian recordings your model never trained on, to measure word and character error rate before launch.
How many hours of Albanian speech do you need?
It depends on the model you start from and how close your users sound to the training data. These are rough starting points that come up often in speech work. Your own tests should decide.
| Goal | Rough starting point | With our Albanian data |
|---|---|---|
| Test a model you already have | A few hours your model never trained on | A test set cut from stock and kept out of training |
| Fine-tune a multilingual model, such as Whisper or wav2vec 2.0 | Tens to a few hundred hours | Roughly 500 hours in stock covers it |
| Adapt to one domain, like banking calls | A smaller set that sounds like your users | Stock as a base, plus a custom top-up in your domain |
| Train an Albanian model from scratch | Thousands of hours | Stock as a base, plus a larger custom collection |
Free Albanian speech datasets or a licensed one?
Public corpora such as Mozilla Common Voice, FLEURS and research Albanian speech corpora have done a lot for Albanian speech research. They cover what their creators chose to record, like read sentences, crowd recordings or broadcast speech, and each comes with its own licence and terms of use. Here's how they compare with a licensed dataset.
| Topic | Public Albanian corpora | Our Albanian speech dataset |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Set by each corpus, and some limit redistribution or changes | Agreed with you in writing, for what you're building |
| Consent | Covered by each project's own terms | Every speaker consented to commercial AI training |
| What it sounds like | Whatever the project recorded | Speech, prompts and conversations, with sample clips first |
| Who else trains on it | Anyone who downloads it | Set in the licence we agree with you |
| Filling gaps | Up to you | Recorded to your brief by the same network |
| Support | Community forums | A named contact from sample to delivery |
How to check an Albanian speech sample
Six things to check before you license, and where to look for each. Use it on every vendor you compare.
| Check | What to look for | Where to find it |
|---|---|---|
| Accents | Speakers from the regions your users come from | The speaker mix on the spec sheet, and the clips |
| Everyday speech | The way your users really talk, including any mixing with other languages | Listen to the clips |
| Script | Transcripts in the script and spelling your model should output | The transcript format on the spec sheet |
| Audio | A sample rate and recording setup close to your product | The sample rate on the spec sheet |
| Numbers | Amounts, dates and phone numbers written one consistent way | Transcripts of the clips |
| Rights | Consent that covers commercial AI training, and a licence that fits | Ask for the licence terms before you buy |
From Albanian sample clips to licensed data
Your named contact runs it from the first question to delivery.
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Ask
Tell us how many Albanian hours you need and what the model is for.
You get A reply within one business day
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Sample and spec sheet
We send Albanian sample clips and the spec sheet in reply.
You get Albanian clips and the spec sheet
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Licence and quote
We agree the licence terms and send a quote for the order.
You get Written licence terms and a quote
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Delivery
The licensed Albanian speech is delivered to you.
You get Licensed Albanian speech with transcripts
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Fill the gaps
Accents, devices or domains that are missing get recorded to your brief.
You get New Albanian speech, recorded to your brief
Get Albanian sample clips Start with the sample clips, then decide.
Albanian speech data terms
The words that come up when you buy or build Albanian speech data. The full glossary covers every data type.
- Gheg
- The northern Albanian variety, spoken in northern Albania and Kosovo.
- Tosk
- The southern Albanian variety that standard Albanian is based on.
- Ë
- An Albanian letter for a weak vowel, often dropped at the end of words in speech.
- Speaker metadata
- Details recorded about each speaker, such as gender and age, that let you check the speaker mix against your users.
- OTS dataset
- Short for off-the-shelf dataset: data already collected and ready to license before a buyer asks for it, instead of recorded to one buyer's brief.
- Word error rate (WER)
- The share of words a speech model gets wrong against a reference transcript. Lower is better.
- Character error rate (CER)
- The same idea counted in characters, often used alongside WER, since small spelling differences can make WER look worse than the model is.
- Utterance
- One stretch of speech by one speaker, such as a single prompt read aloud or one turn in a conversation.
More Albanian and speech data
Every language in stock is on the off-the-shelf speech datasets page. Related speech datasets: Greek, Italian, Serbian and Turkish.
OTS speech datasets
Around 35,000 hours across languages, ready to license.
Albanian data to your brief
Albanian speech, text and translation, collected to order.
Transcription
Albanian audio turned into timed text, checked by people.
Languages
100 languages, collected to order.
Data and model evaluation
Held-back Albanian speech scored against your targets.
Questions about the Albanian speech dataset
Straight answers about licensing Albanian speech. The off-the-shelf FAQ covers questions that apply to every language.
Do you have an Albanian speech dataset ready to license?
Yes. Roughly 500 hours of Albanian speech, prompts and conversations are already recorded and ready to license, as part of our off-the-shelf speech pool.
What's in the Albanian speech dataset?
A mix of scripted prompts and natural conversations in Albanian, recorded on mobile phones, laptops and studio microphones, in quiet and noisy settings. Every recording comes with a transcript and metadata about the speaker, the device and the setting, in WAV, OGG or another common format.
Does it include speakers from Kosovo?
The speaker mix is listed on the spec sheet. Ask where the speakers in the hours you'd license come from, and the sample clips let you hear them before you commit.
Did every speaker consent to AI training?
Yes. Every speaker gave consent for their recordings to be used for commercial AI training.
How is the Albanian dataset licensed?
Licence terms are agreed with each customer, in writing, before delivery. That includes how you can use the data and whether anyone else can license the same recordings.
How much does the Albanian speech dataset cost?
We quote each order on its own, based on the hours you need and the licence terms. Send your request and your named contact comes back with a quote.
Can we hear Albanian samples first?
Yes. Ask and we send Albanian sample clips with the spec sheet, so you can check the audio before you commit.
What if we need more than 500 hours, or a specific accent?
We collect it. Albanian speakers from our network record new speech to your brief, such as a region, an age group, a device or a domain, and it can sit alongside the hours you license from stock.
Is this the same as an Albanian voice dataset or speech corpus?
For most uses, yes. Speech dataset, voice dataset, audio dataset and speech corpus are names for the same thing: recorded Albanian speech with details about each recording. If you need studio-quality voice for text-to-speech, ask for the recordings made in a studio.
Can we use it as an Albanian speech-to-text (ASR) dataset?
Yes. Every recording comes with a transcript, so it's ready for training and testing Albanian speech-to-text models. The spec sheet shows the transcript style, so you can check it matches your pipeline before you license it.
Why not use a free Albanian speech dataset?
Public Albanian corpora are a good start for research. Each one has its own licence and terms of use, and they cover what their creators chose to record, such as read sentences or broadcast speech. Read the licence before you train a commercial model on one, and check that it sounds like your users.
What does OTS mean?
OTS stands for off-the-shelf: data that's already recorded and ready to license, instead of collected after you order. Our OTS Albanian speech dataset is roughly 500 hours.
How many hours of Albanian speech do we need?
It depends on your starting model. A test set can be a few hours, fine-tuning a multilingual model often starts at tens to a few hundred hours, and training from scratch takes thousands. Your own tests should decide.
Can we fine-tune Whisper or wav2vec 2.0 on it?
Yes. Teams commonly fine-tune open speech models like these on licensed Albanian speech, and every recording comes with a transcript in WAV, OGG or another common format. The spec sheet shows the transcript style, so you can plan any conversion before you train.
Do you work with US teams?
Yes. We take calls in US Eastern mornings, which is evening in India. We're ISO 27001 certified, our SOC 2 report is available under NDA, and we sign GDPR data processing agreements and HIPAA business associate agreements on request.
Get Albanian sample clips
Say roughly how many Albanian hours you need and what the model is for. We'll send sample clips and the spec sheet.
- Your named contact replies within one business day.
- We send Albanian sample clips and the spec sheet.
- We agree the licence terms and send a quote.
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