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annotations_creators: |
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- expert-generated |
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language_creators: |
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- crowdsourced |
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languages: |
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- en |
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licenses: |
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- cc-by-4-0 |
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multilinguality: |
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- monolingual |
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pretty_name: VCTK |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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source_datasets: |
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- original |
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task_categories: |
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- speech-processing |
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task_ids: |
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- automatic-speech-recognition |
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paperswithcode_id: vctk |
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--- |
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# Dataset Card for VCTK |
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## Table of Contents |
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- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description) |
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- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) |
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- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards) |
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- [Languages](#languages) |
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- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) |
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- [Data Instances](#data-instances) |
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- [Data Fields](#data-fields) |
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- [Data Splits](#data-splits) |
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- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation) |
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- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale) |
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- [Source Data](#source-data) |
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- [Annotations](#annotations) |
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- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information) |
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- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data) |
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- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset) |
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- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases) |
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- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations) |
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- [Additional Information](#additional-information) |
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- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators) |
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- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information) |
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- [Citation Information](#citation-information) |
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- [Contributions](#contributions) |
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## Dataset Description |
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- **Homepage:** [Edinburg DataShare](https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2645) |
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- **Repository:** |
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- **Leaderboard:** |
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- **Point of Contact:** |
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### Dataset Summary |
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This CSTR VCTK Corpus includes speech data uttered by 110 English speakers with various accents. Each speaker reads out about 400 sentences, which were selected from a newspaper, the rainbow passage and an elicitation paragraph used for the speech accent archive. |
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### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Languages |
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[More Information Needed] |
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## Dataset Structure |
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### Data Instances |
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A data point comprises the path to the audio file, called `file` and its transcription, called `text`. |
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``` |
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{ |
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'speaker_id': 'p225', |
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'text_id': '001', |
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'text': 'Please call Stella.', |
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'age': '23', |
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'gender': 'F', |
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'accent': 'English', |
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'region': 'Southern England', |
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'file': '/datasets/downloads/extracted/8ed7dad05dfffdb552a3699777442af8e8ed11e656feb277f35bf9aea448f49e/wav48_silence_trimmed/p225/p225_001_mic1.flac', |
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'audio': |
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{ |
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'path': '/datasets/downloads/extracted/8ed7dad05dfffdb552a3699777442af8e8ed11e656feb277f35bf9aea448f49e/wav48_silence_trimmed/p225/p225_001_mic1.flac', |
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'array': array([0.00485229, 0.00689697, 0.00619507, ..., 0.00811768, 0.00836182, 0.00854492], dtype=float32), |
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'sampling_rate': 48000 |
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}, |
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'comment': '' |
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} |
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``` |
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Each audio file is a single-channel FLAC with a sample rate of 48000 Hz. |
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### Data Fields |
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Each row consists of the following fields: |
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- `speaker_id`: Speaker ID |
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- `audio`: Audio recording |
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- `file`: Path to audio file |
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- `text`: Text transcription of corresponding audio |
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- `text_id`: Text ID |
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- `age`: Speaker's age |
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- `gender`: Speaker's gender |
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- `accent`: Speaker's accent |
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- `region`: Speaker's region, if annotation exists |
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- `comment`: Miscellaneous comments, if any |
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### Data Splits |
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The dataset has no predefined splits. |
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## Dataset Creation |
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### Curation Rationale |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Source Data |
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#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization |
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[More Information Needed] |
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#### Who are the source language producers? |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Annotations |
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#### Annotation process |
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[More Information Needed] |
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#### Who are the annotators? |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Personal and Sensitive Information |
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The dataset consists of people who have donated their voice online. You agree to not attempt to determine the identity of speakers in this dataset. |
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## Considerations for Using the Data |
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### Social Impact of Dataset |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Discussion of Biases |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Other Known Limitations |
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[More Information Needed] |
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## Additional Information |
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### Dataset Curators |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Licensing Information |
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Public Domain, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License ([CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)) |
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### Citation Information |
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```bibtex |
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@inproceedings{Veaux2017CSTRVC, |
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title = {CSTR VCTK Corpus: English Multi-speaker Corpus for CSTR Voice Cloning Toolkit}, |
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author = {Christophe Veaux and Junichi Yamagishi and Kirsten MacDonald}, |
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year = 2017 |
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} |
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``` |
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### Contributions |
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Thanks to [@jaketae](https://github.com/jaketae) for adding this dataset. |
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