amu-cai/polish_presidential_debate-2025

Polish Presidential Debate 2025 (BIGOS-format)

BIGOS-V2-compatible repackaging of directtt/polish_presidential_debate (Apache 2.0, Dudek et al. 2025) for use with the BIGOS V3 platform ASR evaluation pipeline. 195 samples (13 candidates × ~15 utterances each) from the TVP Polish Presidential Debate on 12 May 2025.

Source

• Upstream corpus: directtt/polish_presidential_debate (Apache 2.0)
  • Pinned revision: ae67d748a50d
  • Audio source: DEBATA PREZYDENCKA TVP | 12.05.2025
  • Authors: Dudek Marcel, Jerzykiewicz Sebastian, Rybczyński Jędrzej, Solarski Antoni (2025)
• Repackaging: Michał Junczyk, AMU CAI (2026-05). BIGOS V2 schema mapping + Parquet conversion, no audio modification.

Why a separate repo

The upstream directtt/polish_presidential_debate ships as a script-based HF dataset (loader at polish_presidential_debate.py), which requires trust_remote_code=True to load. The BIGOS platform's ADR-040 policy blocks that flag for safety. This repository serves identical audio + transcripts as a static Parquet dataset, removing the policy block and enabling reproducible loading via plain load_dataset().

Sample distribution

13 candidates × 15 utterances each = 195 samples. Each candidate is a separate dataset subset value, enabling natural stratified sampling in the BIGOS scenario loader.

Schema (BIGOS V2 compatible)

Column	Type	Description
audioname	string	Unique sample identifier (e.g., bartoszewicz_artur_0)
audio	Audio(16kHz)	WAV audio bytes
ref_orig	string	Gold reference transcription
dataset	string	Subset name = candidate (e.g., bartoszewicz_artur)
speaker_id	string	Same as dataset (each candidate is one speaker)
speaker_gender	string	M / F
speaker_age	string	Speaker age (integer-as-string)
speech_type	string	read / spontaneous
source	string	youtube (TVP broadcast originally posted on YouTube)
locale	string	always pl

License

• Original audio + transcripts: Apache 2.0 (per upstream directtt/polish_presidential_debate)
• BIGOS schema mapping (this repo's curation): CC-BY-NC-4.0

When using this dataset, please cite the original authors:

@misc{polish_presidential_debate,
  title = {Polish Presidential Debate ASR Dataset},
  author = {Dudek Marcel, Jerzykiewicz Sebastian, Rybczyński Jędrzej, Solarski Antoni},
  year = {2025}
}

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("amu-cai/polish_presidential_debate-2025", split="test")
print(ds[0]["audioname"], ds[0]["ref_orig"][:80])

BIGOS evaluation pipeline

./scripts/benchmark/run_long_eval.sh --scenario debate-test --sync-cache