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# StoryTTS
> [STORYTTS: A HIGHLY EXPRESSIVE TEXT-TO-SPEECH DATASET WITH RICH TEXTUAL EXPRESSIVENESS ANNOTATIONS](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10446023)
StoryTTS is a highly expressive text-to-speech dataset that contains rich expressiveness both in acoustic and textual perspective, from the recording of a Mandarin storytelling show (评书), which is delivered by a female artist, Lian Liru(连丽如). It contains 61 hours of consecutive and highly prosodic speech equipped with accurate text transcriptions and rich textual expressiveness annotations.
[Demos](https://goarsenal.github.io/StoryTTS/)
[More Info](https://github.com/X-LANCE/StoryTTS)
## File Description
* `StoryTTS.zip`: The audio data of StoryTTS.
* `transcript` : The transcripts of StoryTTS in simplified Chinese with puncuations.
## Note
* The dataset is **ONLY** for research purposes.
* The ownership of the speech data remains with the original owner. Downloading this dataset defaults to agreeing to sign our [licensing agreement](https://github.com/X-LANCE/StoryTTS/blob/main/storytts_license_agreement.pdf). lt's important to note that these materials may be removed at any time upon request from the original owner.
## Citation
```
@inproceedings{storytts,
author={Sen Liu and Yiwei Guo and Xie Chen and Kai Yu},
title={{StoryTTS: A Highly Expressive Text-to-Speech Dataset with Rich Textual Expressiveness Annotations}},
year={2024},
booktitle={ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
pages={11521-11525},
doi={10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446023}
}
```