keithito/lj_speech

This is a public domain speech dataset consisting of 13,100 short audio clips of a single speaker reading passages from 7 non-fiction books in English. A transcription is provided for each clip. Clips vary in length from 1 to 10 seconds and have a total length of approximately 24 hours. Note that in order to limit the required storage for preparing this dataset, the audio is stored in the .wav format and is not converted to a float32 array. To convert the audio file to a float32 array, please make use of the `.map()` function as follows: ```python import soundfile as sf def map_to_array(batch): speech_array, _ = sf.read(batch["file"]) batch["speech"] = speech_array return batch dataset = dataset.map(map_to_array, remove_columns=["file"]) ```