---
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](https://github.com/unslothai/spark-tts) or [Coqui TTS](https://github.com/coqui-ai/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

```python
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](https://huggingface.co/davidmwila)