Datasets:

Buck26
/

tts-french-dataset

annotations_creators:
  - crowdsourced
language:
  - fr
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
pretty_name: French TTS Dataset
task_categories:
  - text-to-speech
tags:
  - french
  - tts
  - audio
  - speech
  - voice

🇫🇷 French TTS Dataset

This dataset contains French speech audio paired with clean transcriptions, intended for training text-to-speech models such as Spark-TTS or Coqui TTS.

📁 Contents

dataset.parquet — metadata file with audio paths, transcriptions, speaker info
Audio/ — directory of all .wav files used for training

📊 Dataset Structure

The dataset.parquet file includes the following columns:

Column	Description
`audio`	Path to `.wav` file
`text`	French transcription
`original_filename`	Original `.wav` file name
`clip_creation_time`	ISO-formatted timestamp (optional)

💡 Example

from datasets import load_dataset, Audio

dataset = load_dataset("davidmwila/tts-french-dataset")
dataset = dataset.cast_column("audio", Audio())

print(dataset[0])

✅ License

CC-BY 4.0

🙌 Credits

Created by David Mwila