Figures / Prices
$14 per hour of audio
Audio and speech, asking prices off the shelf, per hour of audio (research use only)
The median of 36 public prices for audio and speech on the asking prices off the shelf side, each stated per hour of audio (a range counts as its geometric midpoint; the middle half runs from $6.86 to $32).
Updated 14 Oct 2026, from its newest record.
The 36 records it is computed from, largest first
- Amount$7KAs stated$7,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 984 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Fisher English Training Speech Part…
- United Nations Proceedings Speech: about 8,500 hours of proceedings in the six official UN languagesAmount$5KAs stated$5,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 8,500 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, United Nations Proceedings Speech…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 520 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, AISHELL-1 (LDC2018S14)
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 438.34 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, AnnoDIFP Session Audio and…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 56 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, CALLHOME American English Second…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 48 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, CALLHOME German Second Edition…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 49 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, CALLHOME Japanese Second Edition…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 38 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Second…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 38 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, CALLHOME Spanish Second Edition…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 149 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, HKUST Mandarin Telephone Speech,…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 80 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Mixer 6 - CHiME 8 Transcribed Calls…
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 280 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Polish Speech Database (LDC2019S19)
- Amount$3KAs stated$3,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 260 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Switchboard-1 Release 2 (LDC97S62)
- Amount$2.5KAs stated$2,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 364 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Call My Net 1 (LDC2024S05)
- Amount$2.5KAs stated$2,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 163 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Fisher Spanish Speech (LDC2010S01)
- Amount$2.5KAs stated$2,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 118 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Multi-Language Conversational…
- Amount$2.5KAs stated$2,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 320 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, REMIX Telephone Collection…
- AIDA Ukrainian Broadcast and Telephone Speech: about 156 hours with 1.2 million words of transcriptsAmount$2KAs stated$2,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 156 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, AIDA Ukrainian Broadcast and…
- Amount$2KAs stated$2,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 116 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME…
- Amount$2KAs stated$2,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 165 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, GALE Phase 2 Arabic Broadcast News…
- Amount$2KAs stated$2,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 590 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, King Saud University Arabic Speech…
- Amount$2KAs stated$2,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 192 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Mandarin-English Code-Switching in…
- Amount$1.9KAs stated$1,900.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 72 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, ICSI Meeting Speech (LDC2004S02)
- Amount$1.5KAs stated$1,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 44 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Korean Telephone Conversations…
- Multi-Channel WSJ Audio: about 100 hours of British English read speech from 45 speakers, far-field…Amount$1.5KAs stated$1,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 100 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Multi-Channel WSJ Audio (LDC2014S03)
- Amount$1.5KAs stated$1,500.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 141 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, CSR-I (WSJ0) Complete (LDC93S6A)
- Amount$1.2KAs stated$1,200.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 23 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, TORGO Database of Dysarthric…
- Amount$1.1KAs stated$1,150.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 70 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Air Traffic Control Complete…
- Amount$1KAs stated$1,000.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 45 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Fisher Levantine Arabic…
- Amount$750As stated$750.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 24 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Global TIMIT Learner Treebank…
- Amount$750As stated$750.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 10 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Magic Data Chinese Mandarin…
- Amount$250As stated$250.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 80 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, MATERIAL Somali-English Language…
- Amount$250As stated$250.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 112 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, MATERIAL Swahili-English Language…
- Amount$250As stated$250.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 131 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, Samrómur Children Icelandic Speech…
- Amount$25As stated$25.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 201 hoursDated14 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, IARPA Babel Vietnamese Language…
- IARPA Babel Zulu Language Pack: about 211 hours of Zulu conversational and scripted telephone speechAmount$25As stated$25.00 (non-member fee) per corpus of about 211 hoursDated11 Oct 2026SourceLDC catalog, IARPA Babel Zulu Language Pack…