| license: cc0-1.0 | |
| language: | |
| - lv | |
| pipeline_tag: text-to-speech | |
| # Latvian TTS dataset "Rūdolfs" | |
| Dataset is created from [audio books](https://www.youtube.com/@LatvijasNeredzigobiblioteka) of | |
| [Latvijas Neredzīgo bibliotēka](https://neredzigobiblioteka.lv/). For permission reasons the original voice | |
| in the recordings has been cloned to a donor voice. | |
| Audio book recordings are used with permission from Latvijas Neredzīgo bibliotēka. | |
| ## Optional processing | |
| For some tastes the "s" sounds in the clips released may feel too harsh. | |
| To reduce them use the `sibilant_reducer.py` script. | |
| ```commandline | |
| uv run python sibilant_reducer.py --input-dir ../clips/wav --output-dir ../clips/wav_deessed | |
| ``` | |