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  BIPA - Brazilian Portuguese Phonetic Dataset with Dialectal Variations in IPA
  Standard
dataset_name: BIPA
language:
  - pt
multilinguality: monolingual
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
tags:
  - g2p
  - ipa
  - brazilian-portuguese
  - dialects
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
annotations_creators:
  - derived-from-crowdsourcing
source_datasets:
  - original
configs:
  - config_name: standard
    description: Standard dialect (label "Brazil")
  - config_name: all_dialects
    description: All labeled dialectal variations

BIPA — Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation Dataset (IPA)

Description

A grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) dataset for Brazilian Portuguese, with transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and dialectal labels, derived from Wiktionary under CC BY-SA 4.0. Includes consistent symbol normalization (inventory: 107 segmental letters, 44 diacritics) and standardization of dialectal labels.

Paper: BIPA: Brazilian Portuguese Phonetic Dataset with Dialectal Variations in IPA Standard

Statistics

  • Unique words: 53,353
  • Total transcriptions: 350,021
  • Distribution by dialect:
    • Brazil (general): 52.67%
    • Rio de Janeiro: 22.51%
    • São Paulo: 14.71%
    • South Region: 9.98%
    • Northeast Region: 0.10%
    • Center-West Region: 0.02%
  • Extraction date: 09/17/2025

How to Cite

If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper:

Thiago Monteles de Sousa, Lucas Rafael Gris, and Nádia Félix Felipe da Silva. 2026. BIPA: Brazilian Portuguese Phonetic Dataset with Dialectal Variations in IPA Standard. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 1, pages 478–487, Salvador, Brazil. Association for Computational Linguistics.