This exercise is not graded and is intended to help you become familiar with the tools and libraries that you will be using throughout the rest of the course. If you are already experienced in using Google Colab, 🤗 Datasets, librosa and 🤗 Transformers, you may choose to skip this exercise.
facebook/voxpopuli
dataset in language of your choice in streaming mode.train
part of the dataset and explore it. Given the features that this example has, what kinds of audio tasks can you use this dataset for?If you struggle with this exercise, feel free to take a peek at an example solution. Discovered something interesting? Found a cool model? Got a beautiful spectrogram? Feel free to share your work and discoveries on Twitter!
In the next chapters you’ll learn more about various audio transformer architectures and will train your own model!