SPEECH AND AUDIO INVENTORY
Speech that already exists. Read by the room it was recorded in.
Rights-cleared speech and audio YPAI owns or represents, qualified against your condition before it is offered. What is missing is collected as new recordings.
You describe the speech your system has to hold: the device, the setting, who speaks and how. YPAI reads its own and partner inventory against that condition, shows what can be licensed quickly under NDA, and records only what is missing. Every item arrives as a card your engineers and your counsel can read field by field.
- setting
- a small booth in an ordinary office
- device
- a phone on the ledge, idle
- speakers
- one speaker, recruited by dialect region
- speech type
- spontaneous, prompted by a scenario
- rights
- consent on record, use set by the schedule
THE FOUR AXES
Four axes describe every item. Choose the ones your model runs under.
The same four axes the speech family collects against. Select a value on each and the card below fills for that condition. An axis you leave open stays open on the card, and YPAI collects new recordings for it.
Where a required range is not in inventory, YPAI says so at qualification and scopes the collection that fills it.
QUALIFICATION
An existing item is reviewed against your use before it is offered.
Six checks, run by a person who has read your brief, on every item YPAI owns or represents. An item that fails one is set aside. An item that passes is offered with its card.
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Intended use
Training, evaluation or a deployed product. The permission differs for each, and the item's licence basis has to carry the one you need.
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Speech type
Read, spontaneous, overlapping, code-switched, expressive. The item's elicitation is read against the speech your system meets in production.
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Acoustic conditions
Setting, device tier and channel, as captured. A studio item is set aside for a cabin deployment and says so.
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Format
Container, channels, transcript schema and metadata levels, checked against what your receiving system reads.
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Provenance
Where the recordings come from, under which agreement, and whether the chain from contributor to licensor is unbroken.
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Permitted rights
What the item may be used for, for how long, where, and whether a derivative model may be deployed. Read on the card, granted by the licence.
a person reviews, then offers
select a value on each axis and the request line fills in
ONE DATASET CARD
What one dataset card says. Every field a name, every value a word.
An example card, in the order buyers read it. Under NDA the same card carries the item's own values; chain of title and provenance gaps are shared under NDA only.
A few seconds from your microphone are measured in this tab and discarded. The measurement fills the acoustic fields of the card in words and adds them to the request line.
- room
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- level
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- signal
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example card · no item named
- Language and dialect
- one language, one written norm, the dialect region tagged
- Acoustic environment
- the setting as captured, noise and reverberation classed
- Elicitation
- the speech type as prompted or as it happened
- Transcript schema
- verbatim with disfluencies, speaker turns, word times
- Device and channel
- the tier it was captured on, one channel per speaker
- Age band and gender
- recorded as categories per speaker
- Native or second language
- recorded per speaker
- Self-reported or checked
- dialect checked by a linguist from the region
- Licence basis and permitted uses
- commercial training · evaluation only, held out of training · research
- Exclusions
- voice cloning, resale of raw audio, white-label supply
- Consent scope and withdrawal
- per speaker, per purpose; withdrawal quarantines the recordings and is reported
- Chain of title and provenance
- shared under NDA
- Derivative-model rights
- as the schedule sets them, named before signature
- Sublicensing and resale
- prohibited unless the schedule says otherwise
- Term and territory
- as the schedule sets them
- Expiry and provenance gaps
- shared under NDA
Ships with every item
- the dataset card, in this order
- a data card in the order of the EU AI Act's data-governance article
- a Croissant description carrying provenance and permitted use
- a consent record per speaker
- capture metadata per recording
- the transcript schema and its guidelines
- the QA trail, per dialect group
THE GATE
Under NDA you read the inventory. The licence grants the use.
The NDA is the first gate and only that. It opens the list. Every use is granted by the licence that follows it.
What the NDA opens
Dataset cards, the inventory, prices, provenance descriptions, technical specifications, anonymised or controlled samples, partner and sourcing information where the agreement allows it.
What only the licence grants
Training rights, evaluation rights on production data, resale, sublicensing, white-label rights, access to personal data, keeping samples permanently.
What follows the NDA
Dataset Licence Agreement, or MSA with a SOW and a Data Licence Schedule.
The licence structures
An evaluation licence, held out of training, a research licence, a commercial training licence, an exclusive structure, with geography, use or term set.
Samples
Samples are for evaluation. YPAI can ask for samples and evaluation material to be deleted.
Who opens it
A named project lead opens the inventory with you.
THE GAP
Where the inventory has the gap, YPAI records it.
An axis with no matching item is collected as new recordings. Recruitment by dialect region, setting and device, on the platform the inventory was built on, so the new recordings arrive with the same card as the licensed ones.
- Language and dialect
- one language, one written norm, the dialect region tagged
- Acoustic environment
- the setting as captured, noise and reverberation classed
- Elicitation
- the speech type as prompted or as it happened
- Device and channel
- the tier it was captured on, one channel per speaker
The industries that ask for this speech
THE BRIEF
Describe the speech you need. Start under NDA.
Two sentences are enough. A named project lead reads it, matches it against own and partner inventory, and comes back with what can be licensed and what has to be recorded.
QUESTIONS
Questions ASR and TTS teams ask
Why is there no list of datasets on this page?
The inventory, the dataset cards, the prices and the provenance descriptions are shared under NDA. The page shows the axes an item is described on and one example card, so you can tell before the NDA whether the shape fits.
What does "YPAI owns or represents" mean?
Some items YPAI recorded and controls with sufficient rights. Others YPAI represents for partner suppliers, after sampling, technical review and a rights check. Both arrive with the same card and the same licence structure.
Can the same item be licensed for training and for evaluation?
Only if the schedule says so. Evaluation, model training and commercial deployment are separate permissions, each with territory, term, withdrawal handling, deletion and retention written in. An evaluation set held out of training stays held out.
What happens when a speaker withdraws consent after delivery?
The recordings are quarantined in YPAI systems, the withdrawal is reported to you with a ledger entry, and erasure follows within the period the schedule sets.
What if no item covers our condition?
YPAI says so at qualification and scopes the collection that fills the gap: recruitment by dialect region, setting and device, on the same platform, delivered with the same card.
Where is the audio processed and stored?
Primary operations are in Norway on EEA infrastructure. Items can be structured for EEA-only sourcing and EEA-resident processing; other delivery is arranged where a deployment requires it.
Described by the conditions it was recorded in.
Describe the condition. The card that matches comes back under NDA; the field that does not is collected as new recordings.