Malaysian Malay speech dataset
Malaysian Malay speech including real call-centre audio, transcribed in Rumi with tagged code-switching into English, Mandarin and Tamil — the way the language is actually spoken.
| Language | Malaysian Malay |
|---|---|
| Endonym | Bahasa Melayu |
| ISO 639-3 | zsm |
| Speaker population | ~33 million |
| Primary regions | Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei |
| Dialects covered | Standard Malay, Kelantanese, Sarawak Malay, Manglish register |
| Hours available / collectable | 900 hours available (incl. call audio) · 2,000 hours/quarter collectable |
| Recording spec | 8 kHz telephony and 48 kHz studio, mono and dual-channel |
| Transcript availability | Rumi (Latin) orthography with code-switch tagging (Malay/English/Chinese/Tamil) |
| Consent basis | Two-party consent for call audio; written consent for recorded sessions |
| License terms | Perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive; PII-redacted delivery standard |
| Related languages | Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Gulf Arabic, Khmer |
Why Malaysian Malay data is hard to find
Everyday Malaysian speech switches languages mid-sentence, so monolingual Malay corpora badly mismatch deployment. Regional varieties like Kelantanese differ enough to break standard-trained ASR. Consented, redacted call audio in this market is almost never available off the shelf.
What we can collect
- —Dual-channel call-centre audio with consent chain and PII redaction
- —Code-switched conversational speech with switch-point tags
- —Kelantanese and Sarawak dialect collection
- —Malay–English translation pairs
Licensing and consent
Two-party consent for call audio; written consent for recorded sessions. Delivery is under perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive; pii-redacted delivery standard. Call and conversational audio is redacted for personal information before hand-off, and every recording carries a documented consent chain you can audit.
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