Dataset Card for Nota

Dataset Summary

This data was created by the public institution Nota, which is part of the Danish Ministry of Culture. Nota has a library audiobooks and audiomagazines for people with reading or sight disabilities. Nota also produces a number of audiobooks and audiomagazines themselves.

The dataset consists of audio and associated transcriptions from Nota's audiomagazines "Inspiration" and "Radio/TV". All files related to one reading of one edition of the magazine "Inspiration" or "Radio/TV" has been segmented into bits of 2 - 50 seconds.

The dataset has been published as a part of the initiative sprogteknologi.dk, within the Danish Agency for Digital Government (DIGST).

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis are the intended tasks for this dataset. No leaderboard is active at this point.

Languages

The dataset is available in Danish (da).

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 256.21 GB
• Size of the generated dataset: 361.62 GB
• Total amount of disk used: 617.83 GB

An example from the dataset looks as follows.

{
  'audio': {'path': 'RMHL20190028_000140.wav',
  'array': array([-0.04023849, -0.06235407, -0.04545404, ...,  0.00014322,
          0.00017925,  0.00018811]),
  'sampling_rate': 16000},
 'text': '13:05: 24syv Dokumentar 14:05: Spørge Jørgen Vært: Jørgen Leth'
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

• audio: an Audio feature.
• text: a string feature.

Dataset Statistics

There are 98,600 samples in the dataset.

Transcription Length Distribution

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Dan Saattrup Nielsen from the The Alexandra Institute reorganised the dataset and uploaded it to the Hugging Face Hub.

Licensing Information

The dataset is licensed under the CC0 license.