1,000 hours of Saudi spontaneous speech
Bayanat Labs (Riyadh) licenses 1,000 hours of unscripted Saudi speech with task annotation and commercial AI-use rights, separate from the Saudi conversational collection, part of Bayanat Voice’s 30,000 hours of Arabic speech.
اقرأ هذه العائلة بالعربيةWhat this dataset is for
For ASR and spoken-language teams that need Saudi speech beyond read scripts.
Commercial AI-use rights included; permitted uses are specified in the agreement.
What’s included
- 1,000 hours of Saudi spontaneous speech
- Task annotation
- Commercial AI-use rights
What Bayanat Labs adds
- One supplier: license this collection from Bayanat Labs (Riyadh), then add custom collection, annotation, RLHF or evaluation from the same team, across nine product families.
- A team of 50,000+ expert annotators, the largest in the Middle East, including vetted native speakers, linguists and licensed domain professionals across 25+ Arabic varieties, calibrated against gold standards with adjudication and an audit trail.
- In-region hosting by default, with on-prem and private-cloud options. We build no models, so we never compete with yours.
- Methods in the open: LabelBench, the Arabic Agent Reliability Lab (methods beta) and our free datasets and tools.
Technical specification: source, format, coverage, limitations & license
Bayanat Labs licenses 1,000 hours of unscripted Saudi speech with task annotation and commercial AI-use rights.
- Source
- Spontaneous speech; recording origin and speaker mix available on request.
- Record format / annotation
- Spontaneous speech with task annotation; task labels, transcript coverage and delivery format on request.
- Audio format
- Audio format, sample rate and channel layout on request
- Speakers
- Count and composition on request
- Collection year
- On request
- Language / dialect
- Saudi Arabic; request variety breakdown
- Quantity
- 1,000 hours
- Known limitations
- Separate from the 1,000-hour Saudi Conversational Speech collection. The benchmark report is on request, not published. Permitted uses are specified in the agreement. Synthetic-voice use is not implied by recognition data rights; it needs explicit speaker terms.
- License type
- Commercial AI-use rights included; permitted uses are specified in the agreement.
- Refresh cadence
- Ask about versions and updates
- Training task
- Spontaneous-speech recognition and spoken-language understanding
- Last updated
- 2 November 2026
What to check in your sample
- Speaker count, Saudi language varieties, and collection dates
- Task labels, transcript coverage, and delivery format
- Benchmark report: benchmark name, version, evaluated model, metric, and score
We’ll send the available sample, specifications and licence wording for this collection so your team can check the fit before licensing. Need it annotated, extended or evaluated on your model? We scope a fixed-scope pilot with gold-standard QA and a quality report, usually within two weeks.
Benchmark report
Ask for the benchmark report for this collection: benchmark name and version, evaluated model, metric, and score. The report can help your team judge whether the data fits your task.
Ask for the benchmark reportCommon questions
Is this the 1,000-hour Saudi Conversational Speech collection?
No. They are separate products, each containing 1,000 hours. This listing is Saudi Spontaneous Speech. The conversational listing has its own specifications, including human transcripts, timestamps, and speaker attributes.
Where can we review the benchmark result and speaker breakdown?
Ask for the product datasheet and the benchmark report for this collection. Review the benchmark name, version, evaluated model, metric, and score alongside the speaker mix and collection dates.