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+The LJ Speech Dataset
+
+Version 1.0
+July 5, 2017
+https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset
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+
+
+OVERVIEW
+
+This is a public domain speech dataset consisting of 13,100 short audio clips
+of a single speaker reading passages from 7 non-fiction books. A transcription
+is provided for each clip. Clips vary in length from 1 to 10 seconds and have
+a total length of approximately 24 hours.
+
+The texts were published between 1884 and 1964, and are in the public domain.
+The audio was recorded in 2016-17 by the LibriVox project and is also in the
+public domain.
+
+
+
+FILE FORMAT
+
+Metadata is provided in metadata.csv. This file consists of one record per
+line, delimited by the pipe character (0x7c). The fields are:
+
+  1. ID: this is the name of the corresponding .wav file
+  2. Transcription: words spoken by the reader (UTF-8)
+  3. Normalized Transcription: transcription with numbers, ordinals, and
+     monetary units expanded into full words (UTF-8).
+
+Each audio file is a single-channel 16-bit PCM WAV with a sample rate of
+22050 Hz.
+
+
+
+STATISTICS
+
+Total Clips            13,100
+Total Words            225,715
+Total Characters       1,308,674
+Total Duration         23:55:17
+Mean Clip Duration     6.57 sec
+Min Clip Duration      1.11 sec
+Max Clip Duration      10.10 sec
+Mean Words per Clip    17.23
+Distinct Words         13,821
+
+
+
+MISCELLANEOUS
+
+The audio clips range in length from approximately 1 second to 10 seconds.
+They were segmented automatically based on silences in the recording. Clip
+boundaries generally align with sentence or clause boundaries, but not always.
+
+The text was matched to the audio manually, and a QA pass was done to ensure
+that the text accurately matched the words spoken in the audio.
+
+The original LibriVox recordings were distributed as 128 kbps MP3 files. As a
+result, they may contain artifacts introduced by the MP3 encoding.
+
+The following abbreviations appear in the text. They may be expanded as
+follows:
+
+     Abbreviation   Expansion
+     --------------------------
+     Mr.            Mister
+     Mrs.           Misess (*)
+     Dr.            Doctor
+     No.            Number
+     St.            Saint
+     Co.            Company
+     Jr.            Junior
+     Maj.           Major
+     Gen.           General
+     Drs.           Doctors
+     Rev.           Reverend
+     Lt.            Lieutenant
+     Hon.           Honorable
+     Sgt.           Sergeant
+     Capt.          Captain
+     Esq.           Esquire
+     Ltd.           Limited
+     Col.           Colonel
+     Ft.            Fort
+
+     * there's no standard expansion of "Mrs."
+
+
+19 of the transcriptions contain non-ASCII characters (for example, LJ016-0257
+contains "raison d'être").
+
+For more information or to report errors, please email [email protected].
+
+
+
+LICENSE
+
+This dataset is in the public domain in the USA (and likely other countries as
+well). There are no restrictions on its use. For more information, please see:
+https://librivox.org/pages/public-domain.
+
+
+CHANGELOG
+
+* 1.0 (July 8, 2017):
+  Initial release
+
+* 1.1 (Feb 19, 2018):
+  Version 1.0 included 30 .wav files with no corresponding annotations in
+  metadata.csv. These have been removed in version 1.1. Thanks to Rafael Valle
+  for spotting this.
+
+
+CREDITS
+
+This dataset consists of excerpts from the following works:
+
+* Morris, William, et al. Arts and Crafts Essays. 1893.
+* Griffiths, Arthur. The Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2. 1884.
+* Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
+  1933-42.
+* Harland, Marion. Marion Harland's Cookery for Beginners. 1893.
+* Rolt-Wheeler, Francis. The Science - History of the Universe, Vol. 5:
+  Biology. 1910.
+* Banks, Edgar J. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 1916.
+* President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Report
+  of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
+  1964.
+
+Recordings by Linda Johnson. Alignment and annotation by Keith Ito. All text,
+audio, and annotations are in the public domain.
+
+There's no requirement to cite this work, but if you'd like to do so, you can
+link to: https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset
+
+or use the following:
+@misc{ljspeech17,
+  author       = {Keith Ito},
+  title        = {The LJ Speech Dataset},
+  howpublished = {\url{https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset/}},
+  year         = 2017
+}