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license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- zh
- en
tags:
- audio
- speech
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### Dataset Description
This dataset consists of 50 short audio clips of Mandarin Chinese sentences recorded by a 21-year-old female native speaker. The sentences cover various daily topics such as greetings, weather, numbers, and travel inquiries.
The total duration of the dataset is approximately 4 minutes. All audio files are recorded in a quiet environment, segmented into sentence-level clips, and saved in 16-bit PCM WAV format at 44.1kHz. This dataset is designed for educational purposes in computational linguistics and Text-to-Speech (TTS) model training.
### Issues Encountered & Solutions
During the data preparation process, I encountered two main technical issues:
1. Handling Breath Sounds: I noticed that my breathing sounds were quite audible between phrases. Including them would introduce unnecessary noise into the dataset.
Solution: Instead of applying digital silence which might sound unnatural, I adopted a precise segmentation strategy. When selecting the start and end points of each clip in Praat, I carefully adjusted the boundaries to exclude the audible inhalations, ensuring each file begins and ends cleanly with the speech signal.
3. Inconsistent Amlitude: Initially, some sentences were recorded louder than others because my distance from the microphone varied slightly.
Solution: I re-recorded the sentences that were too quiet and kept a fixed distance (about 15cm) from the microphone. I also visually checked the waveforms in Praat to ensure they had a healthy volume level without clipping (staying within the 0.3 to 0.7 range). |