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DocTalkBN: A Novel Dataset of Expert Telemedicine Conversations in Bengali

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 27, 2026 · UTC

Reliable medical conversational AI requires authentic expert--patient interaction data, yet such datasets remain scarce, especially for low-resource languages such as Bengali. We present DocTalkBN, a large-scale multimodal dataset of real-world expert telemedicine conversations in Bengali, collected from nationally broadcast telemedicine programs featuring board-certified physicians. DocTalkBN contains 557.63 hours of paired audio and text, 1,515 multi-turn patient calls, 10,274 host--doctor question--answer exchanges, totaling 1.7M tokens, spanning 26 medical specialties. Unlike prior resourc

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