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HUI-Audio-Corpus-German: A High Quality TTS Dataset

Authors : Pascal Puchtler, Johannes Wirth, René Peinl

Published in: KI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The increasing availability of audio data on the internet leads to a multitude of datasets for development and training of text to speech applications, based on deep neural networks. Highly differing quality of voice, low sampling rates, lack of text normalization and disadvantageous alignment of audio samples to corresponding transcript sentences still limit the performance of deep neural networks trained on this task. Additionally, data resources in languages like German are still very limited. We introduce the “HUI-Audio-Corpus-German”, a large, open-source dataset for TTS engines, created with a processing pipeline, which produces high quality audio to transcription alignments and decreases manual effort needed for creation.

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Title: HUI-Audio-Corpus-German: A High Quality TTS Dataset
Authors: Pascal Puchtler
Johannes Wirth
René Peinl
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: KI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-87625-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-87626-5

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87626-5_15

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