mltk.datasets.audio.mlcommons.ml_commons_voice

ML Commons Voice Subset

Overview

This dataset is a subset of:

• https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets

• https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/terms

• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

This contains short clips of different people reading. The clips have been converted to 16kHz, PCM audio.

Abstract

Common Voice is a publicly available voice dataset, powered by the voices of volunteer contributors around the world. People who want to build voice applications can use the dataset to train machine learning models.

At present, most voice datasets are owned by companies, which stifles innovation. Voice datasets also underrepresent: non-English speakers, people of colour, disabled people, women and LGBTQIA+ people. This means that voice-enabled technology doesn’t work at all for many languages, and where it does work, it may not perform equally well for everyone. We want to change that by mobilising people everywhere to share their voice.

Variables

DOWNLOAD_URL	Public download URL
VERIFY_SHA1	SHA1 hash of the dataset archive file

Functions

download(dest_dir[, logger, clean_dest_dir])

Download and extract the dataset

DOWNLOAD_URL = 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9uxyr22w3jgenc/common_voice_subset.7z?dl=1'

Public download URL

VERIFY_SHA1 = 'ce424afd5d9b754f3ea6b3a4f78304f48e865f93'

SHA1 hash of the dataset archive file

download(dest_dir, logger=None, clean_dest_dir=False)

Download and extract the dataset

Return type:

str

Returns:

The path to the extracted dataset directory

Parameters:

• dest_dir (str) –

• logger (Logger) –