Case Study | Low-Resource Languages Data | Strategic Data Sourcing

20+

Suppliers contacted

across global markets

2 weeks

Full sourcing assessment with confirmed supply path

vs. a quarter of internal effort

45 languages

All priority languages covered

within budget, technical requirements confirmed

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THE CHALLENGE

A well-funded voice AI company building and improving ASR and TTS

models needed proprietary low-resource language audio and transcript

data at scale. Their data acquisition team had an active requirement

across 45+ priority languages, with no confirmed sourcing path and a firm

budget ceiling. Prior attempts through standard channels had returned

either unsuitable datasets or pricing well above budget.

The brief was technically demanding: multi-speaker conversational audio

with human QA transcript pairs, speaker-diarized and time-coded, 18kHz

minimum sample rate, 60% multi-speaker conversational, perpetual

commercial AI training rights for ASR and TTS only, across 45+ languages.

WHAT NEXUS DELIVERED

• Mapped and contacted 20+ suppliers across broker, academic,

community, and government categories spanning North America,

Europe, Africa, and Asia

• Produced a structured Buyer SCREEN Report covering sourceability,

rights feasibility, supplier accessibility, delivery feasibility, and budget

realism across 45+ target languages

• Identified 20+ languages with no confirmed existing supply, assessed

feasible sourcing paths for each, and confirmed qualified supply with

pricing within budget across all

• Flagged two languages carrying sourcing risk beyond standard

collection, with compliance implications requiring internal review by the

client

• Confirmed speaker diarization built directly into the collection

infrastructure, satisfying the hard multi-speaker technical requirement

• Obtained written technical confirmation against all hard requirements

including perpetual ASR/TTS licensing, voice cloning restriction, and

GCP delivery

• Documented the client's existing supplier relationships, protecting

active conversations from duplication

• Surfaced market pricing intelligence across professional studio-grade

and community collection models, enabling the client to understand the

full cost and quality spectrum before committing

Sample deliverable: Buyer SCREEN Report Client identity and specific requirements redacted to protect confidentiality.

Covers executive decision, confidence scoring, requirement mapping, supplier qualification, do not contact tracking, build vs. license

analysis, and structured next steps.

The SCREEN SOURCEABILITY REPORT is 100% Free.

Every engagement starts with a no-cost sourceability assessment. You only pay if you choose to proceed to active

sourcing.

SERVICES DELIVERED

• Buyer SCREEN Report

• Build vs. license analysis

• Global supplier mapping

• Evidence-based qualification

• Written confirmations

• Market pricing intelligence

• Second vendor sourcing

• Reusable sourcing framework

OUTCOME

In two weeks, Nexus delivered a confirmed sourcing path with qualified

supply, written technical and commercial confirmations, and structured

market intelligence across 20+ suppliers. The client moved from an open

market search with no confirmed supply path to a shortlist-ready position

with competitive pricing and samples available for engineering evaluation.

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