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This paper introduces a new multi-speaker English dataset for training text-to-speech models. The dataset is based on LibriVox audiobooks and Project Gutenberg texts, both in the public domain. The new dataset contains about 292 hours of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Evelina Bakhturina , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg , Yang Zhang

Building dialogue systems requires a large corpus of annotated dialogues. Such datasets are usually created via crowdsourcing, which is expensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we propose \textsc{Dialogic}, a novel dialogue simulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zekun Li , Wenhu Chen , Shiyang Li , Hong Wang , Jing Qian , Xifeng Yan

We introduce doc2dial, a new dataset of goal-oriented dialogues that are grounded in the associated documents. Inspired by how the authors compose documents for guiding end users, we first construct dialogue flows based on the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Song Feng , Hui Wan , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

Dialogue systems have been widely applied in many scenarios and are now more powerful and ubiquitous than ever before. With large neural models and massive available data, current dialogue systems have access to more knowledge than any…

This paper introduces a high-quality open-source speech synthesis dataset for Kazakh, a low-resource language spoken by over 13 million people worldwide. The dataset consists of about 93 hours of transcribed audio recordings spoken by two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Saida Mussakhojayeva , Aigerim Janaliyeva , Almas Mirzakhmetov , Yerbolat Khassanov , Huseyin Atakan Varol

We introduce a new dataset of conversational speech representing English from India, Nigeria, and the United States. The Multi-Dialect Dataset of Dialogues (MD3) strikes a new balance between open-ended conversational speech and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jacob Eisenstein , Vinodkumar Prabhakaran , Clara Rivera , Dorottya Demszky , Devyani Sharma

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have significantly transformed the field of style-captioned text-to-speech synthesis (CapTTS). However, adapting CapTTS to real-world applications remains challenging due to the lack…

In this paper, we propose a Chinese multi-turn topic-driven conversation dataset, NaturalConv, which allows the participants to chat anything they want as long as any element from the topic is mentioned and the topic shift is smooth. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xiaoyang Wang , Chen Li , Jianqiao Zhao , Dong Yu

Previous dialogue summarization datasets mainly focus on open-domain chitchat dialogues, while summarization datasets for the broadly used task-oriented dialogue haven't been explored yet. Automatically summarizing such task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Lulu Zhao , Fujia Zheng , Keqing He , Weihao Zeng , Yuejie Lei , Huixing Jiang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu , Jun Guo , Fanyu Meng

This paper presents a dataset collected from natural dialogs which enables to test the ability of dialog systems to learn new facts from user utterances throughout the dialog. This interactive learning will help with one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček

To facilitate the research on intelligent and human-like chatbots with multi-modal context, we introduce a new video-based multi-modal dialogue dataset, called TikTalk. We collect 38K videos from a popular video-sharing platform, along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Hongpeng Lin , Ludan Ruan , Wenke Xia , Peiyu Liu , Jingyuan Wen , Yixin Xu , Di Hu , Ruihua Song , Wayne Xin Zhao , Qin Jin , Zhiwu Lu

While voice technologies increasingly serve aging populations, current systems exhibit significant performance gaps due to inadequate training data capturing elderly-specific vocal characteristics like presbyphonia and dialectal variations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yang Chen , Hui Wang , Shiyao Wang , Junyang Chen , Jiabei He , Jiaming Zhou , Xi Yang , Yequan Wang , Yonghua Lin , Yong Qin

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, particularly those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have significantly improved expressiveness and naturalness. However, generating human-like, interactive dialogue speech remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Hanke Xie , Dake Guo , Chengyou Wang , Yue Li , Wenjie Tian , Xinfa Zhu , Xinsheng Wang , Xiulin Li , Guanqiong Miao , Bo Liu , Lei Xie

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models have made significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on datasets written by annotators, which has resulted in a gap between academic research and real-world spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuzheng Si , Wentao Ma , Haoyu Gao , Yuchuan Wu , Ting-En Lin , Yinpei Dai , Hangyu Li , Rui Yan , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

We introduce a text-to-speech (TTS) model called BASE TTS, which stands for $\textbf{B}$ig $\textbf{A}$daptive $\textbf{S}$treamable TTS with $\textbf{E}$mergent abilities. BASE TTS is the largest TTS model to-date, trained on 100K hours of…

This paper introduces the PhotoBook dataset, a large-scale collection of visually-grounded, task-oriented dialogues in English designed to investigate shared dialogue history accumulating during conversation. Taking inspiration from seminal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Janosch Haber , Tim Baumgärtner , Ece Takmaz , Lieke Gelderloos , Elia Bruni , Raquel Fernández

Large datasets are essential for neural modeling of many NLP tasks. Current publicly available open-domain dialogue datasets offer a trade-off between quality (e.g., DailyDialog) and size (e.g., Opensubtitles). We narrow this gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Richard Csaky , Gabor Recski

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in multimodal processing, including end-to-end speech-based language models that enable natural interactions and perform specific tasks in task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Enzhi Wang , Qicheng Li , Shiwan Zhao , Aobo Kong , Jiaming Zhou , Xi Yang , Yequan Wang , Yonghua Lin , Yong Qin

We introduce an open source high-quality Mandarin TTS dataset MSceneSpeech (Multiple Scene Speech Dataset), which is intended to provide resources for expressive speech synthesis. MSceneSpeech comprises numerous audio recordings and texts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Qian Yang , Jialong Zuo , Zhe Su , Ziyue Jiang , Mingze Li , Zhou Zhao , Feiyang Chen , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai

Dialogue state tracking is the core part of a spoken dialogue system. It estimates the beliefs of possible user's goals at every dialogue turn. However, for most current approaches, it's difficult to scale to large dialogue domains. They…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Liliang Ren , Kaige Xie , Lu Chen , Kai Yu