Data collection

We go and record the thing your model has never heard.

Real people, their own devices, the rooms they actually live and work in. Speech is the deepest line on the bench — thousands of hours, nine locales, consent on every file. Video, image and text run on the same recruiting and QA machinery.

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Modalities

What we collect.

Four modalities, one machinery: recruit to a quota, consent on the file, a written protocol, a pilot batch, then weekly delivery with a quality report. What changes per modality is the kit and the protocol, not the people or the gate.

A contributor recording a speech session on her phone at homeA worker recording speech on a phone while walking through a warehouse aisleA contributor recording a scripted speech prompt in a parked car

Speech & audio

Two-party calls, spontaneous speech, read prompts, accents to quota, and the same script in a car, a kitchen and a warehouse.

  • Two-party conversations, each side on its own channel
  • Spontaneous and prompted speech with fillers kept
  • Accent and locale coverage recruited to quota
  • Matched acoustic conditions for degradation studies
4,000+ hours delivered · 9 locales live · 50 hours a dayRequest speech data
A phone on a tripod filming a person doing a kitchen task from the sideA person wearing a chest camera restocking a grocery shelfThe same person doing the same task in daylight and at night, framed identically

Video

Task video from a phone or an action camera — third-person and first-person — plus the embodied capture on the Physical Intelligence pages.

  • Everyday tasks filmed in real homes and workplaces
  • Egocentric capture from chest and head mounts
  • Scripted scenarios with the same person across conditions
  • Depth and gripper demonstrations, to a written protocol
Real homes and workplaces · 9 locales · phone, action-cam and rig captureSee Physical Intelligence
A shopkeeper photographing a grocery shelf with a phoneA phone photographing a receipt and a form on a kitchen tableHousehold products being photographed on a counter with two different phones

Image

Photographs to a spec — products, scenes, documents, faces with consent — across the devices and lighting your users actually have.

  • Product and shelf photography in real shops
  • Scenes and interiors across locales
  • Documents, receipts and forms, redacted to spec
  • Same subject across devices and lighting
Products, scenes and documents · consent and redaction on every file
A contributor writing a scripted dialogue on a laptop from a printed briefA nurse writing sector-specific text on a laptop at a clinic deskTwo reviewers checking a printed transcript against the screen

Text & conversation

Written dialogues, prompts and chat transcripts authored by people who work in the sector, in the register the sector actually uses.

  • Multi-turn dialogues to a scenario brief
  • Prompts and instructions in nine locales
  • Sector-specific written material by practitioners
  • Transcripts paired with the audio they came from
Practitioner-authored · 9 locales · sector register, not crowd English
How a collection runs

Four steps, and the first one is a phone call.

  1. 01day 0
    Tell us the failure

    Not the dataset — the input your model gets wrong. A clip, a photo, a paragraph is enough to start.

  2. 0248 hours
    Spec and quote

    Quantity, locales, devices, conditions, annotation depth — and the contributor rate you will be paying, stated as its own line.

  3. 032 weeks
    Pilot batch

    Five percent of the volume, delivered first, so the spec breaks early instead of at the end.

  4. 04ongoing
    Weekly delivery

    Drops into your bucket with a quality report and the reviewer chain attached to every batch.

What arrivesWhat lands in your bucket.
Full delivery spec and terms
  • 01Original device capture, plus any agreed derivative
  • 02Manifest per item: locale, device, condition, consent reference
  • 03Transcript or labels to the agreed convention, where ordered
  • 04Quality report per batch — accepted, rejected, and why
  • 05Delivery into your region, on your bucket or ours
Coverage

Crews on every continent, recruited to the locale you need.

Contributors record on their own phones, in their own rooms, in the accent and the light they actually live in. Blue is where the bench runs deepest today — 9 locales across Europe, Asia and the Americas — and anything beyond it is recruited to order against a locale quota, with the first crew on file inside two weeks.

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Record, film, photograph, write

Whatever we collect, we pay the person who made it.

Pick a task on the workspace, do it on your own device in your own space, and get paid once it passes review. The rate is on the task before you start, and it is the same rate whoever the buyer is.

Speech
$20per approved audio hour

Twenty-minute sessions on your phone: read prompts, conversations, noisy rooms. Locales we are short on pay above base.

Video
$6per approved episode

Five to fifteen minutes of a real task on a phone tripod, or on a chest camera we ship you. Rig programs pay per finished hour.

Image
$0.40per approved photo

Shelves, products, documents and scenes to a brief, on the phone you already have. Matched-condition sets pay per pair.

Text
$8per approved dialogue

Multi-turn dialogues, prompts and instructions in your own language, in the register of the sector you work in.

Payout seven days after approval, $10 minimum balance, by bank transfer or UPI. Consent is on every file and can be withdrawn before payout.

Questions

Before you send a brief.

Does the process change between speech, video, image and text?
The machinery does not. Recruiting, consent, calibration and QA are the same for a photo as for a call; what changes is the protocol and the kit, which is what the pilot batch is for. The spec names both before anything is recorded.
Who are the contributors?
People recruited for the locale, the setting or the sector the spec calls for, paid per approved unit at a rate shown before they start. Anyone can join the speech pool; sector-specific work is recruited against the credential.
How is consent handled?
Captured on the file, before the contributor speaks or films, naming what the data trains. It can be withdrawn before payout, and the consent reference ships in the manifest of every item.
Where does the data live?
A collection is pinned to one region at kickoff — EU, US or India — and stays there. Graders stream, they do not copy.

Not sure which modality you need?

Send one input your model handles badly — a clip, a photo, a paragraph. We will tell you what would fix it, and what it would cost, before anyone signs anything.

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