| # Licensing |
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| This release is not a single artefact under a single licence. Four components have genuinely |
| different rights, and conflating them would claim rights over the audio that SquadStack does not |
| hold. |
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| | Component | Licence | |
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| | **Audio recordings** | Benchmark Evaluation Licence 1.0 (below) | |
| | **Reference transcripts and annotations** | [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), attribution to SquadStack | |
| | **Compilation, schema and metadata** | [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) | |
| | **Evaluation code** (harness and metrics — not in this repository; supplied on request) | [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) | |
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| The access terms you accept at the gate are in [TERMS_OF_USE.md](TERMS_OF_USE.md). |
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| ## Benchmark Evaluation Licence 1.0 — audio |
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| **Copyright © 2026 SquadStack Technologies Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.** |
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| The audio recordings are confidential business data of SquadStack and its clients, containing the |
| voices of identifiable individuals. They are licensed, not sold, and only to accounts approved |
| through the Hugging Face access gate. |
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| ### You may |
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| 1. Use the audio to **evaluate** automatic speech recognition systems, including commercially. |
| 2. Publish evaluation results, including comparative results and results that are unfavourable to |
| SquadStack. No prior approval is required and none will be asked for. |
| 3. Analyse the audio for research into speech recognition, code-switching, speech quality or |
| related topics, and publish that analysis. |
| 4. Retain your copy for as long as you are evaluating, subject to any takedown notice. |
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| ### You may not |
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| 1. **Train, fine-tune, distil, or otherwise fit any model on this audio or its transcripts**, at |
| any stage, including as evaluation-driven model selection. |
| 2. **Redistribute the audio**, in whole or in part, in any form, to anyone — including inside your |
| own organisation beyond the individuals covered by your approved access. |
| 3. **Attempt to determine the identity of any speaker**, or link a recording to any individual, |
| account, phone number or customer record. |
| 4. Build **speaker identification, speaker verification, speaker diarization-for-identification, or |
| voice cloning or synthesis** systems from this data. |
| 5. Use the audio to contact, profile, target or market to any individual appearing in it. |
| 6. Remove, obscure or work around the access gate, this licence, or the terms of use. |
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| ### Attribution |
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| Published results must cite the dataset (BibTeX in the dataset card) and state the version. |
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| ### Termination |
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| This licence terminates automatically on breach. On termination or on a takedown notice, delete |
| all copies of the audio and confirm deletion in writing to SquadStack. |
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| ### Warranty and liability |
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| Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. SquadStack is not liable for any claim, damage or |
| other liability arising from the data or its use. |
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| ### Governing law |
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| Laws of India. Courts at Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. |
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| ## Third-party material |
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| Figures are set in Albert Sans and Noto Sans Devanagari, both under the |
| [SIL Open Font License 1.1](https://scripts.sil.org/OFL). Neither font is redistributed here. |
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| ## Questions |
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| Reach out to SquadStack. If your intended use is not obviously covered above, ask — the answer |
| is usually yes, and a written yes is worth more than an assumption. |
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