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# WSYue-ASR-eval: Cantonese ASR Benchmark

To address the unique linguistic characteristics of Cantonese in speech recognition, we propose **WSYue-ASR-eval**, a benchmark specifically designed for evaluating Cantonese ASR systems. It is tailored to assess model performance across diverse lengths, domains, and linguistic phenomena of Cantonese speech.

The test set annotations are provided by Beijing AISHELL Technology Co., Ltd.

Key features:
- Annotated through multiple rounds of manual labeling
- Includes rich tags such as text transcription, emotion, age, and gender
- Covers Cantonese-English code-switching and multi-domain conditions
- Enables comprehensive evaluation across varying speech lengths

## WSYue-ASR-eval Subsets
| Set   | Duration | Speakers | Hours |
|-------|----------|----------|-------|
| Short | 0–10 s   | 2861     | 9.46  |
| Long  | 10–30 s  | 838      | 1.97  |

Total: 11.4 hours, with diverse speakers and scenarios.