---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: transcription
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 3700111065.76
    num_examples: 12435
  download_size: 3331803699
  dataset_size: 3700111065.76
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
task_categories:
- text-to-speech
language:
- ca
---
# Dataset Card for festcat_trimmed_denoised

This is a post-processed version of the Catalan Festcat speech dataset. The data can be found [here](http://festcat.talp.cat/ca/download-legacy.php).

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

We processed the data of the Catalan Festcat with the following recipe:

- **Trimming:** Long silences from the start and the end of clips have been removed.
  - [py-webrtcvad](https://pypi.org/project/webrtcvad/) -> Python interface to the Voice Activity Detector (VAD) developed by Google for the WebRTC.
- **Resampling:** From 48000 Hz to 22050 Hz, which is the most common sampling rate for training TTS models
  - Resampler from [CoquiTTS](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/dev) framework
- **De-noising:** Although base quality of the audios is high, we could remove some background noise and small artifcats thanks to the CleanUNet denoiser developed by NVIDIA.
  - [CleanUNet](https://github.com/NVIDIA/CleanUNet)
  - [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07790)

We kept the same number of wave files, also the original anonymized file names and transcriptions. 

Same license is maintained: 

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Spain License.

To view a copy of this license, visit this [link](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/).

## Uses

The purpose of this dataset is mainly for training text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition models in Catalan.


## Dataset Structure

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The dataset consists of a single split, providing audios and transcriptions:
```
DatasetDict({
  train: Dataset({
    features: ['audio', 'transcription'],
    num_rows: 4240
  })
})
```
Each data point is structured as:
```
>> data['train'][0]['audio']

{'path': 'caf_09901_01619988267.wav',
 'array': array([-3.05175781e-05, -3.05175781e-05, -3.05175781e-05, ..., -6.10351562e-05, -6.10351562e-05, -6.10351562e-05])
 'sampling_rate': 22050}


>> data['train'][0]['transcription']

"L'òpera de Sydney es troba a l'entrada de la badia"
```

### Dataset Splits

- <u>audio (dict)</u>: A dictionary containing the path to the downloaded audio file, 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].
 
  * path (str): The path to the audio file.
  * array (array): Decoded audio array.
  * sampling_rate (int): Audio sampling rate.


- <u>transcription (str)</u>: The sentence the user was prompted to speak.


## Dataset Creation

### Source Data

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#### Data Collection and Processing

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#### Who are the source data producers?

Copyright 2018, 2019 Google, Inc.


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## Citation

These are the relevant publications related to the creation and development of the festcat dataset:

```
@inproceedings{bonafonte2008corpus,
  title={Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis.},
  author={Bonafonte, Antonio and Adell, Jordi and Esquerra, Ignasi and Gallego, Silvia and Moreno, Asunci{\'o}n and P{\'e}rez, Javier},
  booktitle={LREC},
  year={2008}
}
```

```
@article{bonafonte2009recent,
  title={Recent work on the FESTCAT database for speech synthesis},
  author={Bonafonte, Antonio and Aguilar, Lourdes and Esquerra, Ignasi and Oller, Sergio and Moreno, Asunci{\'o}n},
  journal={Proc. SLTECH},
  pages={131--132},
  year={2009}
}
```

```
@inproceedings{bonafonte2008corpus,
  title={Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis.},
  author={Bonafonte, Antonio and Adell, Jordi and Esquerra, Ignasi and Gallego, Silvia and Moreno, Asunci{\'o}n and P{\'e}rez, Javier},
  booktitle={LREC},
  year={2008}
}
```

```
@inproceedings{bonafonte2008corpus,
  title={Corpus and Voices for Catalan Speech Synthesis.},
  author={Bonafonte, Antonio and Adell, Jordi and Esquerra, Ignasi and Gallego, Silvia and Moreno, Asunci{\'o}n and P{\'e}rez, Javier},
  booktitle={LREC},
  year={2008}
}
```
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