Language Data Licensing

Voice recordings

Sell voice data: consent first, then a buyer

Updated

A voice recording carries a person, so the speakers' agreement comes before any price.

Describe my language data Language, kind of data, hours and consent decide which buyers would look at it.

The speakers' agreement

Consent given for research or broadcast may not cover training an AI model. Check what each speaker agreed to, and for which use, before offering the recordings.

Who says it pays contributors

5 of the 12 rows on the table state what a contributor or an author is paid. The table quotes how each words it.

Tell us about the language data you hold

Language, kind of data, hours and consent decide which buyers would look at it.

The language and the corpus

What kind of language data do you hold?

  • No audio or text files are asked for
  • Answers set against the language data sellers tabled here

Sources

This site's own dataset, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

  • Speech and language data prices, seller by seller: 12 sellers of speech and language data were read for the prices they publish and what they pay contributors, each answer quoted from their own pages, listings and announcements, read 22 October 2026.
No.SourcePublished by
[1]Audio datasets for AI | ASR | TTS | Music | Defined.aidefined.ai
[2]Linguistic Data Consortium - Linguistic Data Consortium (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)languagedatalicensing.com
[3]Data Access Plandefined.ai
[4]DatoricAI/tts-conversational-voice-20000h · Datasets at Hugging Facehuggingface.co
[5]LINGUIST List: LDC new corpora announcement (non-member fees)linguistlist.org
[6]ELRA Catalogue of Language Resourcescatalogue.elra.info
[7]Language Resources Announcements | ELRAelra.info
[8]https://www.bas.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/Bas/BasPricingdeu.pdfbas.uni-muenchen.de

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Language, kind of data, hours and consent decide which buyers would look at it.

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