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Task: TTS
Release Date: 11/24/2025
Format: WEBM
Size: 75.78 MB
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Text to speech dataset for English, male speaker, approximately 1 hour of read speech.
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You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the dataset
Intended Use
Training and fine-tuning text-to-speech models
This dataset contains approximately 1 hour of scripted speech for English (en) from a single speaker.
English is a West Germanic language that is spoken throughout the world.
There are no variants defined for this dataset.
The age and gender of the speaker was not reported. Dataset names may be gendered, but were assigned according to the speaker's preference only.
The text corpus comes from Piper Recording Studio, which extends Microsoft's samples TTS scripts for Azure.
Microsoft provides the following recommendations:
To use these example scripts for training, it's recommended that you should do the sanity check to make sure it matches what the voice talent actually speaks in the audio and normalize the text before uploading the data. For example, change '50%' to fifty percent and '$45' to forty-five dollars. Normalization should apply to the scripts that contain digits, symbols, abbreviations, date, and time.
Statistics for the text corpus:
Average/median characters per sentence: 49/41
Average/median words per sentence: 9/8
English uses a standard Latin alphabet.
Standard alphabet:
Lowercase: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z é
Uppercase: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
5 randomly selected sentences:
May I connect your call to them?
We all have our own methods of dealing with money, but here are a couple of saving tricks that will grow your money.
Would you like me to show you some different products?
The Park has been a global leader in establishing the range of possibilities and approaches to caring for wild animals and landscapes.
But tonight, a car stopped at his house, and a policeman helped him get out.
Audio was recorded online using Piper Recording Studio. No post-processing or validation was done to the text or audio.
A pre-trained Piper voice model is available for download.
If you would like to contribute your voice and have us train a Piper text-to-speech model, please contact us at voice@openhomefoundation.org
We would like to thank all contributors, as well as supporters of the Open Home Foundation.
This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) license. By downloading this data you agree to not determine the identity of speakers in the dataset.