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I've been wondering lately, it seems like audio books might be an amazing training resource for models like these, if you could get the script that the reader w

• sdenton4 9y ago
  Your wish, granted. http://www.openslr.org/12/ http://www.openslr.org/12/ It's 1000 hours of audio book readings, segmented by sentence, with transcripts. All from project Gutenberg, so maybe a little bit heavy on Victorian bodice rippers and such, but certainly a great trove of training data...
  • j_s 9y ago
    Project Common Voice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654
    • woodson 9y ago
      That data is no good for this purpose, as it’s from a lot of different speakers and does not have speaker labels, i.e., you can’t tell which sentences were spoken by which speaker.