About the Dataset

The AVE Speech Dataset includes a 100-sentence Mandarin Chinese corpus with audio signals, lip-region video recordings, and six-channel electromyography (EMG) data, collected from 100 participants. Each subject read the entire corpus ten times, with each sentence averaging approximately two seconds in duration, resulting in over 55 hours of multi-modal speech data per modality. It will be made publicly available once the related paper has been accepted for publication.

Stay tuned for updates. We will provide the dataset along with detailed instructions for access and usage.

Corpus Design

Index	Chinese Sentence	Phonetic Transcription (Mandarin)	Tone	English Translation
#0	我饿了	wo e le	3 4 5	I'm hungry
#1	我口渴	wo kou ke	3 3 3	I'm thirsty
#2	我吃饱了	wo chi bao le	3 1 3 5	I'm full
#3	水太烫了	shui tai tang le	3 4 4 5	The water is too hot
#4	我太累了	wo tai lei le	3 4 4 5	I'm too tired
...	...	...	...	...
#99	向右转	xiang you zhuan	4 4 4	Turn right
#100	(无指令)	None	None	None

For more details, please refer to the file phonetic_transcription.xlsx.

Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as:

@misc{zhou2025avespeechdatasetcomprehensive,
      title={AVE Speech Dataset: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Modal Speech Recognition Integrating Audio, Visual, and Electromyographic Signals}, 
      author={Dongliang Zhou and Yakun Zhang and Jinghan Wu and Xingyu Zhang and Liang Xie and Erwei Yin},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2501.16780},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.SD},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16780}, 
}