README.md

---
pretty_name: 10K hours of English MLS
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
- expert-generated
language:
- en
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
paperswithcode_id: multilingual-librispeech
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- text-to-speech
- text-to-audio
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: original_path
    dtype: string
  - name: begin_time
    dtype: float64
  - name: end_time
    dtype: float64
  - name: transcript
    dtype: string
  - name: audio_duration
    dtype: float64
  - name: speaker_id
    dtype: string
  - name: book_id
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: dev
    num_bytes: 249691299.74
    num_examples: 3807
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 245941162.096
    num_examples: 3769
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 158437701688.205
    num_examples: 2420047
  download_size: 158461062068
  dataset_size: 158933334150.041
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: dev
    path: data/dev-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
---
### Dataset Summary

This is a **10K hours** subset of **[English version of the Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS) dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/parler-tts/mls_eng)**. 
The data archives were restructured from the original ones from [OpenSLR](http://www.openslr.org/94) to make it easier to stream.

MLS dataset is a large multilingual corpus suitable for speech research. The dataset is derived from read audiobooks from LibriVox and consists of 
8 languages - English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish. It includes about 44.5K hours of English and a total of about 6K hours for other languages.

This dataset card includes the 10K hours of English. Refers to this [dataset card](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/multilingual_librispeech) for the other languages. 

### Licensing Information

Public Domain, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License ([CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode))

### Citation Information

```
@article{Pratap2020MLSAL,
  title={MLS: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Research},
  author={Vineel Pratap and Qiantong Xu and Anuroop Sriram and Gabriel Synnaeve and Ronan Collobert},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2012.03411}
}
```