Voice

Introducing dataset of professional voice actors where actors have spoken X sentences. It includes data from all the voices (approx. 9, 920) from voices.com website. Where professional actors have provided examples of their voices.

### What's Voices.com?

It is a website where professional voice actors can be found for different voice acting activities for a cheap price. Much like Fiverr but for actual voices.

#### What's included?

1. Voice tracks (approx. 4) for each actor
2. Corresponding Meta-Data.

### Preview of Data

```Bash
# Please, recombine the files after cloning the repo using below command
cat voice_part_* > combined.zip
```

## LICENSE
Data belongs to the corresponding voice actors and concerned parties. **Sleeping AI** does not own these voice snippets. It has been scraped without logging into their website and only publicly available data was gathered for research purpose.

If you want to use for commercial or a different purpose that includes extracting monetary benefits, that'll be a clear violation of code of conduct and internet ethics. Sleeping AI does not endorse such illegal behaviours.

## Ethics note
We believe niche websites like voices.com can contribute positively in the development of artificial intelligence models in the field of signal processing and audio research. Thus, we are releasing this under EU research law. Eastern European servers have been used to gather the dataset.

本数据集收录了专业配音演员的语音数据，所有演员均朗读了X段语句。数据集涵盖了voices.com网站上全部约9920条语音素材，均由专业配音演员提供的个人声音样例组成。

### 什么是voices.com？

voices.com是一个可低价雇佣专业配音演员承接各类配音业务的平台，其定位与主打各类服务的Fiverr类似，但仅专注于语音配音领域。

#### 数据集包含内容：
1. 每位演员对应约4条语音音轨
2. 配套的元数据（Meta-Data）

### 数据预览

Bash
# 请在克隆仓库后使用如下命令合并文件
cat voice_part_* > combined.zip

## 版权声明
本数据集的相关权利归属于对应配音演员及相关方，**Sleeping AI**并不拥有这些语音片段的所有权。本次采集未登录网站账号，仅获取了平台公开可获取的数据，且仅用于学术研究用途。

若将本数据集用于商业用途或其他涉及盈利的不当用途，将明显违反行业行为准则与互联网伦理规范。**Sleeping AI**不认可此类违规违法行为。

## 伦理声明
我们认为，诸如voices.com这类垂直类语音服务平台，可对信号处理与音频研究领域的人工智能模型开发起到积极推动作用。因此，本数据集依据欧盟研究相关法律法规予以发布。本次数据集的采集工作通过东欧服务器完成。