---
license: mit
language:
  - he
pretty_name: ILSpeech
viewer: false
tags:
  - tts
  - text-to-speech
  - hebrew
---

# ILSpeech

Hebrew phonemes TTS Dataset 🗣️

## Dataset content

This dataset contains around 2 hours of studio-quality speech.

It includes two folders:

- Motek: 40m male speaker
- Ran: 1h 30m male speaker

It includes clean text and phonemes. The audio is in 22.05 kHz mono format with clean recordings.

Each dataset is approximately 120 MB.

## License

Non commercial (CC-NC)

## Sample

- Motek

<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/63cfcf99e23b90128c66be2a/13JJXEgB5K08x5B47CsFG.wav"></audio>

- RanLevi

<audio controls src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/63cfcf99e23b90128c66be2a/DYElS9v--nTY5jlvQDduy.wav"></audio>

## Format

Phoneme annotations are provided in LJSpeech format `file_id|phonemes` inside `metadata.csv` file (LJSpeech format).

Example: `1|ma hamatsav` where `1` will point to `./wav/1.wav`. each wav length is 2 to 25 seconds.

and the phonemization was done using https://github.com/thewh1teagle/phonikud, with manual corrections for accuracy.

## Setup

```console
sudo apt install p7zip-full -y
7z x dataset.7z
```

## Training

You can find training receipes for the dataset in [github.com/thewh1teagle/ilspeech-train](https://github.com/thewh1teagle/ilspeech-train)

## Phonemize

The dataset comes with phonemes already so you don't need this for train, 

However you do need it after you train the model.

you can phonemize the text using [Phonikud](https://github.com/thewh1teagle/phonikud)