Southeast Asia · Thai
Thai Speech Commands Dataset
Thai speech commands sourced to your specification — no inventory, no fixed listing. This page covers what is specifically hard about this pairing, and which fields your specification needs to pin down.
Why speech commands in Thai is its own problem
Politeness level changes the length of a Thai command — the same instruction with or without ครับ / ค่ะ is a different utterance, and users say both when actually operating a voice assistant. The word list has to treat those two variants as separate entries.
The field to pin down first: Every entry has to state whether it includes a politeness variant, and whether variants count toward the word list size.
At a glance
| Language | Thai |
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| Primary region | Southeast Asia |
| Writing system | Thai |
| Category | Speech Commands |
| Specification field to settle first | Every entry has to state whether it includes a politeness variant, and whether variants count toward the word list size. |
| Delivery | Sourced to order, pilot batch before the full run |
What speech commands data is
Targeted recordings of short command words or phrases, usually with many speakers reading each entry several times over, used for wake words and on-device command recognition.
What buyers get wrong about it
What buyers consistently underestimate is the repetition count — a single command entry needs at least a few dozen distinct speakers, each reading it multiple times, to cover pronunciation variation.
The specification field that decides the quote
Once the word list is locked it cannot change; adding words midway means starting a new batch.
The language side: what Thai demands
Thai has five tones, and Thai script carries no word spacing — a sentence is one long run of continuous characters. There is no single right answer for where word boundaries go, which lets different annotators produce mutually incompatible corpora.
What we can put in this delivery
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Read and conversational speech
Scripted recording for TTS, and unscripted conversation for recognition. Specified separately because they need different speaker pools.
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Transcription to your convention
Orthographic or phonetic, with the guideline written before production and shared with you for review.
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Speaker metadata
Age band, gender, region and dialect background per file, so you can slice the dataset rather than take it whole.
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Consent documentation
Signed speaker consent covering the intended use, plus collection methodology and the annotation guideline.
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Pilot batch
A small batch first, which you can reject. Misalignments surface after a few hours rather than at delivery.
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Delivery in your format
Audio format, sampling rate, segmentation length and metadata schema set to your pipeline's requirements.
What arrives in a delivery
| Component | What it is |
|---|---|
| Audio files | Format, sampling rate and segmentation length set to your pipeline. Named to a convention you specify. |
| Transcription | Orthographic or phonetic, produced under a guideline you review before production starts. |
| Speaker metadata | Age band, gender, region and dialect background per file, plus a speaker identifier so the dataset can be sliced. |
| Recording conditions | Environment, device and, where relevant, measured signal-to-noise ratio per file. |
| Annotation guideline | The document the annotators worked from, so you can reproduce the conventions on your own data. |
| Consent records | Signed speaker consent covering your intended use, with the transfer mechanism addressed where required. |
| Collection methodology | How speakers were recruited, screened and scheduled — the part that tells you how biased the pool is. |
| Quality report | Pilot outcome, re-work log, and the annotator agreement figures where the task supports measuring them. |
Questions we get about Thai Speech Commands
How many distinct speakers can you provide for Thai Speech Commands?
It depends on the specification and the timeline, and we will give a real number rather than a target. For this pairing, speaker recruitment is usually the step that sets the schedule. Every entry has to state whether it includes a politeness variant, and whether variants count toward the word list size.
Can you annotate to our own guideline instead of the default?
Yes, and for this pairing we would recommend it. Politeness level changes the length of a Thai command — the same instruction with or without ครับ / ค่ะ is a different utterance, and users say both when actually operating a voice assistant. That is exactly the kind of decision a default guideline leaves open, and it is where annotators diverge. Send us your guideline, or we will draft one and you can review it before production starts.
Do you offer a sample before we commit to a full run?
Yes. Select a free sample in the request form and describe what you need. A pilot batch is the cheapest way to establish whether the quality bar is reachable for Thai Speech Commands before committing to the full volume.
Is the data licensed or owned outright?
Licensing terms are set per project, so tell us how the model will be used and whether it will be distributed. Consent documentation travels with the data either way, and we do not handle medical or clinical data or recorded telephone calls.
Other datasets in Thai
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Thai Accented English
English speech from non-native speakers or specific regional accents, grouped by accent origin, used to improve accent robustness in ASR.
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Thai Speech Translation
Parallel data pairing source-language audio with target-language translation, used for speech-to-text and speech-to-speech translation models.
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Thai In-the-Wild Speech
Speech collected under fully natural conditions — no studio, no topic constraints — as close to real usage as collection gets.
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Thai Call Center Speech
Recorded customer-service calls, real or simulated, capturing both the agent and the caller side, used for call center QC, intent recognition, and dialogue systems.
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Thai Conversational Speech
Speech from natural conversation between two or more people, on open or semi-structured topics, used for conversational AI, voice assistants, and small talk models.
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Thai Singing Voice
Vocal recordings with melody, in both a cappella and accompanied form, used for singing voice synthesis, music information retrieval, and lyric alignment.
Speech Commands in other languages
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Hausa Speech Commands
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Uzbek Speech Commands
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Hindi Speech Commands
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Arabic (MSA) Speech Commands
Middle East & North Africa
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Indonesian Speech Commands
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Turkish Speech Commands
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Request Thai Speech Commands
Tell us the language, the hours, and what the data needs to look like. You will get a real number and a real timeline — not a range. If we cannot source it well, we will tell you that instead.
- Pilot batch before the full run, so problems surface early.
- Consent documentation delivered with the data.
- No medical or clinical data. No recorded telephone calls.