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Spanish_Heritage_6
she stood near the window
Spanish
test
Spanish_Heritage_6
the milk is in a pitcher
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
why are you selling those
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they waited for an hour
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the bananas are too ripe
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the bus leaves before the train
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
everyone has the right to a nationality
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
it's time to go to bed
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
everyone without any discrimination has the right to equal pay for equal work
Spanish
test
Spanish_Heritage_6
they called an ambulance
Spanish
test
Spanish_Heritage_6
mother got a saucepan
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the food is expensive
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
how could he recognize me when he had never seen me before
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the girl is washing her hair
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
sugar is very sweet
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the grown ups are certainly very odd he said to himself as he continued on his journey
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
mother cut the birthday cake
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the dog played with a stick
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the cat lay on the bed
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the dog is chasing the cat
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the fourth planet belonged to a businessman
Spanish
test
Spanish_Heritage_6
the girl played with the baby
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the ball bounced very high
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they wanted some potatoes
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
father forgot the bread
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
she took off her fur coat
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
so i lived my life alone without anyone that i could really talk to until i had an accident with my plane in the desert of sahara six years ago
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
she found her purse in the trash
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
i believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
does he collect butterflies
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the ball broke the window
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the child drank some fresh milk
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
she cut the steak with her knife
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the earth is not just an ordinary planet
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the book tells a story
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
they knocked on the window
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they're shopping for school clothes
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
milk comes in a carton
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the football game is over
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the broom was in the corner
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they watched the scary movie
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they heard a funny noise
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
they found his brother hiding
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
they're running past the house
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
somebody stole the money
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the lady washed the shirt
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
good morning said the little prince
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the policeman knows the way
Spanish
test
Spanish_Heritage_6
i am right here the voice said under the apple tree
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
everyone has the right to life liberty and security of person
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the shirts are in the closet
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the baby has blue eyes
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
rain is good for trees
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
a letter fell on the floor
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
why should anyone be frightened by a hat
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the car is going too fast
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the picture came from a book
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the girl is fixing her dress
Spanish
test
Spanish_Heritage_6
a towel is near the sink
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
beside the well there was the ruin of an old stone wall
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the road goes up a hill
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the boy did a handstand
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
no one may be compelled to belong to an association
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the waiter brought the cream
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
nothing in this declaration may be interpreted as implying for any state group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the kitchen clock was wrong
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
and he lay down in the grass and cried
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the football hit the goalpost
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the matches are on a shelf
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
boa constrictors swallow their prey whole without chewing it
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
mother read the instructions
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
all humanity could be piled up on a small pacific islet
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the children are walking home
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the kitchen window was clean
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the janitor swept the floor
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the young people are dancing
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the man is painting a sign
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the dog sleeps in a basket
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
she uses her spoon to eat
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the towel fell on the floor
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they carried some shopping bags
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
and now six years have already gone by
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
they are drinking coffee
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
a sheep if it eats little bushes does it eat flowers too
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
bit by bit i came to understand the secrets of your sad little life
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
the family likes fish
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
no one shall be held in slavery or servitude slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
he climbed up the ladder
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the mailman brought a letter
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
the dog is eating some meat
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
why are you drinking
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
a boy fell from a window
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
he hung up his raincoat
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration can be fully realized
Spanish
dev
Spanish_Heritage_6
swimmers can hold their breath
Spanish
ada
Spanish_Heritage_6
they took some food outside
Spanish
ada

ESLTTS

The full paper can be accessed here: arXiv, IEEE Xplore.

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Abstract

With the progress made in speaker-adaptive TTS approaches, advanced approaches have shown a remarkable capacity to reproduce the speaker’s voice in the commonly used TTS datasets. However, mimicking voices characterized by substantial accents, such as non-native English speakers, is still challenging. Regrettably, the absence of a dedicated TTS dataset for speakers with substantial accents inhibits the research and evaluation of speaker-adaptive TTS models under such conditions. To address this gap, we developed a corpus of non-native speakers' English utterances.

We named this corpus “English as a Second Language TTS dataset ” (ESLTTS). The ESLTTS dataset consists of roughly 37 hours of 42,000 utterances from 134 non-native English speakers. These speakers represent a diversity of linguistic backgrounds spanning 31 native languages. For each speaker, the dataset includes an adaptation set lasting about 5 minutes for speaker adaptation, a test set comprising 10 utterances for speaker-adaptive TTS evaluation, and a development set for further research.

Dataset Structure

ESLTTS Dataset/
├─ Malayalam_3/     ------------ {Speaker Native Language}_{Speaker id}
│  ├─ ada_1.flac    ------------ {Subset Name}_{Utterance id}
│  ├─ ada_1.txt     ------------ Transcription for "ada_1.flac"
│  ├─ test_1.flac   ------------ {Subset Name}_{Utterance id}
│  ├─ test_1.txt    ------------ Transcription for "test_1.flac"
│  ├─ dev_1.flac    ------------ {Subset Name}_{Utterance id}
│  ├─ dev_1.txt     ------------ Transcription for "dev_1.flac"
│  ├─ ...
├─ Arabic_3/        ------------ {Speaker Native Language}_{Speaker id}
│  ├─ ada_1.flac    ------------ {Subset Name}_{Utterance id}
│  ├─ ...
├─ ...

Citation

@article{wang2024usat,
  author       = {Wenbin Wang and
                  Yang Song and
                  Sanjay K. Jha},
  title        = {{USAT:} {A} Universal Speaker-Adaptive Text-to-Speech Approach},
  journal      = {{IEEE} {ACM} Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.},
  volume       = {32},
  pages        = {2590--2604},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2024.3393714},
  doi          = {10.1109/TASLP.2024.3393714},
}
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