LibriVox Spanish

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>LibriVox Spanish consists of approximately 73 hours of Spanish read speech and transcripts. The audio data was taken from Spanish audiobooks developed by <a href="https://librivox.org/">LibriVox</a>, a non-profit project that creates audiobooks from public domain works. The transcripts were developed for this release.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The audio is comprised of sentences from 300 books read by 154 speakers (77 men and 77 women). Audio files were manually segmented and are between three and ten seconds in length. Native Spanish speakers transcribed the audio data.</p><br>
<p>Audio is presented as 16kHz, 16-bit, single channel flac files. When uncompressed, they produce PCM wav files.</p><br>
<p>Transcripts are contained in a single plain text file encoded as UTF-8. Speaker metadata is also provided.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view the following samples.</p><br>
<ul><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020S01_nat_f.flac">Native Female</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020S01_non-nat_m.flac">Non-Native Male</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020S01.txt">Transcripts</a></li><br>
</ul><br>
<h3>Acknowledgements</h3><br>
<p>The author thanks Alejandro V. Mena, Elena Vera and Ang&eacute;lica Guti&eacute;rrez for their support of the social service program "Desarrollo de Tecnolog&iacute;as del Habla" and also thanks the social service students for their hard work. Special thanks to LibriVox for publishing the recordings that constitute this corpus.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
Portions © 2020 Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena, © 2020 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania