Speech datasets tailored to your model requirements

You specify the languages, speakers, and format. We recruit, record, transcribe, and deliver.

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Most teams do not just need more audio. They need audio data from the right demographic group, with rich metadata and high quality transcription.

Spirelight builds that dataset.

Recruitment and recording workflow

Recruit the right speakers and collect recordings in one controlled flow.

We source contributors by language, dialect, age, gender, region, device, or other project criteria. Speakers record through browser-based tools with prompts, consent, audio checks, and project guidelines built into the workflow.

Live project tracking

Track collected hours, QA status, and delivery batches while the project runs.

Review progress during production and receive validated batches with audio, transcripts, metadata, and manifests. Your team can test early batches and adjust the collection before the full dataset is finished.

What we do

Speech datasets tailored to your requirements

Need Danish conversations, German call-center speech, French dialect coverage, wake words, commands, or audio plus video recordings? We design the workflow around your data spec, from speaker recruitment to final delivery: speech data collection services for the audio you can't buy off the shelf, and audio annotation services that turn raw recordings into labeled training data.

spirelight · session 01 / 03
Live session · Iberian Spanish

Scripted monologues, dialect-tagged

Recording
  • MRMaria · Madrid · 32Done
  • JPJavier · Sevilla · 41Recording
  • ALAna · Bilbao · 27Queued
WAV · 48 kHz · stereo Prompt set 02 / 12
spirelight · transcript 02 / 03
en-IE_002_dialogue_03.json QA · 2 reviewers
  1. 00:00.42 S1 Could you walk me through the booking flow you used last Tuesday?
  2. 00:03.10 S2 Sure, I opened the app, tapped the search bar, then… flagged
  3. 00:06.94 S1 Got it. Any pauses or hesitations there?
  4. 00:09.38 S2 Yeah, [pause 1.2s] I had to scroll to find the right date.
Word-level timestamps · Speaker-aware · Diarized
manifest.json 03 / 03
{
"project": { 3 fields }, {
"id": "sl-9241",
"language": "es-ES",
"hours": 3000
},
"audio": { 3 fields }, {
"format": "wav",
"sample_rate": 48000,
"channels": 2
},
"transcripts": { click to expand }, {
"format": "jsonl",
"timestamps": "word",
"diarized": true
},
"delivery": { click to expand } {
"channel": "s3-bucket",
"checksums": "sha256",
"batches": true
}
}
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Speech collection

We collect monologues, dialogues, wake words, commands, scripted prompts, roleplays, and natural conversations with speakers matched to your language and profile requirements.

  • Remote or on-site recording
  • Monologues, dialogues, commands, and roleplays
  • Audio-only or synchronized audio plus video
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Transcription and annotation

We deliver machine-assisted or human-validated transcripts with timestamps, speaker labels, domain terminology, and annotation rules matched to your model training needs.

  • Word-level or segment-level timestamps
  • Speaker labels and dialogue structure
  • Human review based on your QA criteria
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Dataset delivery

We package audio, transcripts, metadata, consent references, QA notes, and manifests in the format your engineering team needs.

  • WAV, JSON, JSONL, CSV, or custom formats
  • Metadata schemas matched to your spec
  • Bucket transfer, API handoff, or batch delivery
Why Spirelight

Collect the speech data your model is missing

Four reasons teams use Spirelight for custom speech data collection.

Speaker reach
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Recruit speakers by language, dialect, and profile.

Define the speakers you need by language, dialect, region, age, gender, device, environment, or other project criteria.

Contributor recruitment across 50+ languages and 30+ markets.

Controlled recording setups when quality matters.

We can run remote, on-site, or studio-style sessions using defined microphones, devices, rooms, scripts, and acoustic requirements.

From single-speaker sessions to multi-day collection projects.

Review early batches and adjust the project as it runs.

Your team can test early deliveries, identify gaps, and update speaker targets, prompts, or guidelines before the full dataset is complete.

Mid-project adjustments without restarting production.

Strong coverage in Nordic and harder-to-source European languages.

We regularly recruit and review speakers in markets where off-the-shelf datasets are limited, including Nordic languages, regional dialects, and smaller European language varieties.

Recruiters and reviewers across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.

Your speech data partner for

fine-tuning and language expansion.

We combine contributor recruitment, recording workflows, transcription, QA, and delivery so your team can expand into new languages without building local operations from scratch.

Use cases

Speech data for common voice AI use cases

The workflow is similar across projects, but the speakers, prompts, recording conditions, annotations, and deliverables change with each use case.

Wake words and commands

Wake words and voice commands.

Collect commands, activation phrases, device instructions, and short utterances across languages, accents, microphones, and environments.

Multilingual

Multilingual ASR and TTS expansion.

Build language, accent, and dialect coverage for speech recognition, synthetic voice, and speech evaluation datasets.

Voice agents and emotion

Voice agents and emotion-aware AI.

Collect conversations, roleplays, customer service scenarios, emotional speech, and domain-specific interactions for more natural voice systems.

Team

The team running your data collection project

Spirelight combines commercial project design, recruitment operations, platform engineering, transcription workflows, QA, and delivery management in one team.

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Andreas Kromann

CEO · Commercial lead

Andreas works with clients to turn model requirements into concrete data collection projects.

He defines the project scope, speaker targets, recruitment approach, and delivery expectations before production starts.

Emil Thorsson

CFO · Operations

Emil supports operations, documentation, compliance coordination, and project delivery.

He helps structure the process so recruitment, consent, production, and handoff stay aligned.

Gustav Aggeboe

CTO · Platform architecture

Gustav leads the platform architecture behind Spirelight.

He builds the systems used to manage recording, transcription, QA, metadata, contributor workflows, and dataset delivery.

Joyi Ulfat

Senior Project Manager

Joyi manages project execution across contributors, reviewers, and delivery teams.

She keeps production moving, follows up on daily progress, and helps ensure each project meets its agreed requirements.

Mateo Thelen

Project Manager

Mateo coordinates contributors, recording workflows, and production tasks.

He helps translate project requirements into daily execution and keeps the different parts of the workflow aligned.

Pekka Larjovuori

Crowd Source Expert

Pekka supports recruitment strategy and contributor operations.

He helps source speakers for projects with specific language, dialect, regional, or profile requirements.

Victor Melchior

Sales · Market expansion

Victor leads sales and market research, mapping where Spirelight's speech data work fits new clients and regions.

He runs country expansion research and opens conversations in the markets we move into next.

Yusif Aliyev

Legal · Policy & compliance

Yusif leads legal, internal policy, and compliance at Spirelight.

He maintains the internal policies and compliance processes that keep consent, data handling, and contracts in order.

Michael J. Jørgensen

B2B partners & talent recruitment

Michael leads B2B sales and manages Spirelight's partnerships with freelancers and companies.

He builds the relationships that bring in new clients and contributors, and keeps our freelancer and company partners aligned with each project's needs.

Guides

Understand speech data before you buy it

Practical, vendor-neutral guides for teams building voice AI: what speech data is, how much you need, and how to license it without getting burned.

View all guides

Services and advanced topics: speech data collection services, audio annotation services, speaker diarization, speech data licensing and license agreements, or what data annotation is.

Popular datasets: Russian speech dataset, Amharic speech dataset, Egyptian Arabic speech dataset, Marathi speech dataset, Italian speech dataset, Greek speech dataset, or browse all speech datasets.

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Tell us the speech data you need

Send over your speaker profiles, language needs, and background noise conditions. Our team will design a custom recording plan and deliver a complete project workflow within two business days.

10,000+
contributors in our recruitment network
50+
languages and dialects recruited for
100%
human-audited validation on every project
48h
target response for project briefs