ToneBooksPlus-Grigorii

Filtered subset of ToneBooksPlus containing only samples from speaker Grigorii Metelitsa.

Dataset Details

• Speaker: Grigorii Metelitsa (professional Russian voice actor)
• Total Samples: 15,813
• Total Duration: ~29 hours
• Sample Rate: 16,000 Hz
• Format: WAV (mono, 16-bit PCM)
• Language: Russian

Source

This dataset is a filtered subset of the original ToneBooksPlus dataset:

• Original Dataset: Vikhrmodels/ToneBooksPlus
• Filtering Criteria: Only samples from speaker "grigorii_metelitsa"
• License: Apache 2.0 (inherited from ToneBooksPlus)

Dataset Structure

Each sample contains:

• audio: Audio file (WAV, 16kHz, mono)
• text: Transcribed Russian text

Example

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("ALEKAS/ToneBooksPlus-Grigorii")

# Access first sample
sample = dataset['train'][0]
print(sample['text'])
# Audio is automatically loaded as array
audio_array = sample['audio']['array']
sample_rate = sample['audio']['sampling_rate']

Use Cases

• Russian TTS model training
• Voice cloning (Grigorii's voice)
• Russian ASR model fine-tuning
• Speech synthesis research

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original ToneBooksPlus:

@misc{tonebooksplus,
  title={ToneBooksPlus: Russian Audiobook Dataset},
  author={Vikhrmodels},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/Vikhrmodels/ToneBooksPlus}}
}

License

Apache 2.0 (same as original ToneBooksPlus dataset)

Acknowledgements

• Original dataset creators: Vikhrmodels
• Voice actor: Grigorii Metelitsa
• Dataset curation: ALEKAS