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  - **Duration Range:** 2.4s - 16.3s
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- ## Usage
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- This dataset is optimized for:
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- - **Text-to-Speech (TTS) Fine-tuning** with models like Orpheus-TTS
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- - **Voice Conversion (VC)** experiments with kNN-VC and similar methods
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- - **Hybrid TTS+VC** pipeline development
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- - **ASR Evaluation** on pathological speech
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- - **Speech Synthesis Research** for accessibility applications
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  ### Loading the Dataset
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- ## Research Applications
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- This dataset is part of a larger study on pathological speech synthesis and ASR degradation, investigating:
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- 1. **TTS Fine-tuning**: Speaker-specific fine-tuning of large TTS models
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- 2. **Voice Conversion**: Zero-shot conversion from healthy to pathological speech
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- 3. **Hybrid Approaches**: Combining TTS content generation with VC-based acoustic styling
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- 4. **ASR Robustness**: Evaluating ASR performance on synthetic pathological speech
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- ## Citation
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- If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
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- ```bibtex
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- @dataset{librispeech_female_2025,
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- title={Librispeech Female Dataset for Pathological Speech Synthesis},
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- author={Your Name},
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- year={2025},
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- publisher={Hugging Face},
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- url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/your-username/librispeech_female}
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- }
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- ```
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- ## Original Corpus Citation
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- **LibriSpeech Corpus:**
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- - TORGO: Please cite the original TORGO database papers
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- - UA-Speech: Please cite the original UA-Speech corpus papers
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- - LibriSpeech: Please cite the original LibriSpeech papers
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- ## License
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- MIT License - See LICENSE file for details.
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- ## Ethical Considerations
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- This dataset contains speech from individuals with speech disorders and should be used responsibly:
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- - Respect speaker privacy and dignity
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- - Use for legitimate research purposes
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- - Consider potential biases in synthetic speech generation
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- - Ensure accessibility improvements benefit the target communities
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- ## Contact
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- For questions about this dataset or the associated research, please contact [your-email].
 
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  ### Loading the Dataset
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  ```