Open Speech and Language Resources



Crowdsourced high-quality Argentinian Spanish speech data set.

Identifier: SLR61

Summary: Data set which contains 5739 recordings of native speakers of Spanish

Category: Speech

License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Downloads (use a mirror closer to you):
about.html [1.6K]   (Information about the data set )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
LICENSE [20K]   (License information for the data set )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
line_index_female.tsv [294K]   (All utterances for the female speakers. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
line_index_male.tsv [139K]   (All utterances for the male speakers. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
es_es_line_index_weather.tsv [4.6K]   (Weather messages in Peninsular Spanish. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
es_ar_line_index_weather.tsv [4.7K]   (Weather messages in Argentinian Spanish. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
es_ar_female.zip [1.2G]   (Archive file with all audio for the female speakers. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
es_ar_male.zip [551M]   (Archive file with all audio for the male speakers. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  
es_weather_messages.zip [33M]   (Archive file with the weather messages. )   Mirrors: [US]   [EU]   [CN]  

About this resource:

This data set contains transcribed high-quality audio of random Spanish sentences recorded by volunteers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The data set consists of wave files, and a TSV file (line_index.tsv). The file line_index.tsv contains a anonymized FileID and the transcription of audio in the file.

The data set also contains recordings of simple weather messages recorded in Argentinian Spanish (90 messages), and Peninsular Spanish (90 messages).

The data set has been manually quality checked, but there might still be errors.

Please report any issues in the following issue tracker on GitHub. https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/issues

See LICENSE file for license information.

Copyright 2018, 2019 Google, Inc.

If you use this data in publications, please cite it as follows:

  @inproceedings{guevara-rukoz-etal-2020-crowdsourcing,
    title = {{Crowdsourcing Latin American Spanish for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech}},
    author = {Guevara-Rukoz, Adriana and Demirsahin, Isin and He, Fei and Chu, Shan-Hui Cathy and Sarin, Supheakmungkol and Pipatsrisawat, Knot and Gutkin, Alexander and Butryna, Alena and Kjartansson, Oddur},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)},
    year = {2020},
    month = may,
    address = {Marseille, France},
    publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
    url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.801},
    pages = {6504--6513},
    ISBN = {979-10-95546-34-4},
  }