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configs:
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    data_files:
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license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-to-speech
  - text-to-audio
language:
  - en
pretty_name: Google English Dialects

Dataset Card for "english_dialects"

Dataset Description
Dataset Structure
Dataset Creation
Considerations for Using the Data
Additional Information

Dataset Description

Homepage: Crowdsourced high-quality UK and Ireland English Dialect speech data set.
Repository: Google Language Resources and Tools
Paper: Open-source Multi-speaker Corpora of the English Accents in the British Isles

Dataset Summary

This dataset consists of 31 hours of transcribed high-quality audio of English sentences recorded by 120 volunteers speaking with different accents of the British Isles. The dataset is intended for linguistic analysis as well as use for speech technologies. The speakers self-identified as native speakers of Southern England, Midlands, Northern England, Welsh, Scottish and Irish varieties of English.

The recording scripts were curated specifically for accent elicitation, covering a variety of phonological phenomena and providing a high phoneme coverage. The scripts include pronunciations of global locations, major airlines and common personal names in different accents; and native speaker pronunciations of local words. Overlapping lines for all speakers were included for idiolect elicitation, which include the same or similar lines with other existing resources such as the CSTR VCTK corpus and the Speech Accent Archive to allow for easy comparison of personal and regional accents.

The data archives were restructured from the original ones from OpenSLR to make it easier to stream.

Supported Tasks

text-to-speech, text-to-audio: The dataset can be used to train a model for Text-To-Speech (TTS).
automatic-speech-recognition, speaker-identification: The dataset can also be used to train a model for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The model is presented with an audio file and asked to transcribe the audio file to written text. The most common evaluation metric is the word error rate (WER).

How to use

The datasets library allows you to load and pre-process your dataset in pure Python, at scale. The dataset can be downloaded and prepared in one call to your local drive by using the load_dataset function.

For example, to download the Irish male config, simply specify the corresponding language config name (i.e., "irish_male" for Irish male speakers):

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset =load_dataset("ylacombe/english_dialects", "irish_male", split="train")

Using the datasets library, you can also stream the dataset on-the-fly by adding a streaming=True argument to the load_dataset function call. Loading a dataset in streaming mode loads individual samples of the dataset at a time, rather than downloading the entire dataset to disk.

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset =load_dataset("ylacombe/english_dialects", "irish_male", split="train", streaming=True)

print(next(iter(dataset)))

Bonus

You can create a PyTorch dataloader directly with your own datasets (local/streamed).

Local:

from datasets import load_dataset
from torch.utils.data.sampler import BatchSampler, RandomSampler

dataset =load_dataset("ylacombe/english_dialects", "irish_male", split="train")
batch_sampler = BatchSampler(RandomSampler(dataset), batch_size=32, drop_last=False)
dataloader = DataLoader(dataset, batch_sampler=batch_sampler)

Streaming:

from datasets import load_dataset
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader

dataset =load_dataset("ylacombe/english_dialects", "irish_male", split="train", streaming=True)
dataloader = DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=32)

To find out more about loading and preparing audio datasets, head over to hf.co/blog/audio-datasets.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

A typical data point comprises the path to the audio file called audio and its transcription, called text. Some additional information about the speaker and the passage which contains the transcription is provided.

{'line_id': 'BI0057', 'audio': {'path': 'irm_02484_00388340153.wav', 'array': array([-1.22070312e-04, -1.52587891e-04, -1.22070312e-04, ...,
        1.52587891e-04,  9.15527344e-05,  1.83105469e-04]), 'sampling_rate': 48000}, 'text': 'It is thirteen degrees with drizzle in Exeter', 'speaker_id': 2484}

Data Fields

audio: A dictionary containing the audio filename, the decoded audio array, and the sampling rate. Note that when accessing the audio column: dataset[0]["audio"] the audio file is automatically decoded and resampled to dataset.features["audio"].sampling_rate. Decoding and resampling of a large number of audio files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "audio" column, i.e. dataset[0]["audio"] should always be preferred over dataset["audio"][0].
text: the transcription of the audio file.
speaker_id: unique id of the speaker. The same speaker id can be found for multiple data samples.
line_id: unique id of the transcription. The same line id can be found for multiple speakers.

Data Statistics

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

[Needs More Information]

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[Needs More Information]

Who are the source language producers?

[Needs More Information]

Annotations

Annotation process

[Needs More Information]

Who are the annotators?

[Needs More Information]

Personal and Sensitive Information

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.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[Needs More Information]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

[Needs More Information]

Licensing Information

License: (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)

Citation Information

@inproceedings{demirsahin-etal-2020-open,
    title = "Open-source Multi-speaker Corpora of the {E}nglish Accents in the {B}ritish Isles",
    author = "Demirsahin, Isin  and
      Kjartansson, Oddur  and
      Gutkin, Alexander  and
      Rivera, Clara",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric  and
      Blache, Philippe  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Cieri, Christopher  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Goggi, Sara  and
      Isahara, Hitoshi  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne  and
      Moreno, Asuncion  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.804",
    pages = "6532--6541",
    abstract = "This paper presents a dataset of transcribed high-quality audio of English sentences recorded by volunteers speaking with different accents of the British Isles. The dataset is intended for linguistic analysis as well as use for speech technologies. The recording scripts were curated specifically for accent elicitation, covering a variety of phonological phenomena and providing a high phoneme coverage. The scripts include pronunciations of global locations, major airlines and common personal names in different accents; and native speaker pronunciations of local words. Overlapping lines for all speakers were included for idiolect elicitation, which include the same or similar lines with other existing resources such as the CSTR VCTK corpus and the Speech Accent Archive to allow for easy comparison of personal and regional accents. The resulting corpora include over 31 hours of recordings from 120 volunteers who self-identify as native speakers of Southern England, Midlands, Northern England, Welsh, Scottish and Irish varieties of English.",
    language = "English",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}

Contributions

Thanks to @ylacombe for adding this dataset.

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english_dialects

Dataset Card for "english_dialects"

Table of Contents

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

Supported Tasks

How to use

Bonus

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Data Fields

Data Statistics

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Who are the source language producers?

Annotations

Annotation process

Who are the annotators?

Personal and Sensitive Information

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

Discussion of Biases

Other Known Limitations

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Licensing Information

Citation Information

Contributions