Magicdata Dialect Northeastern Chinese TTS Lite: Scripted Speech Recordings

Northeastern Chinese dialect speech recordings for text-to-speech applications. The dataset contains scripted speech recorded in a quiet indoor environment with a microphone, formatted as 48 kHz, 16-bit WAV files. It was released by MagicHub under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

Use Cases

• Train text-to-speech models based on high-quality, 48 kHz audio recordings.
• Develop dialect-specific speech synthesis based on the Northeastern Chinese dialect content.
• Benchmark speech synthesis quality based on scripted speech data recorded in a controlled environment.
• Augment speech datasets based on the provided audio format and recording specifications.

Strengths

• Audio recordings are high-quality at 48 kHz and 16 bits.
• Recordings were made in a controlled, quiet indoor environment.
• Data is provided in a standard, uncompressed WAV (PCM) format.

Limitations

• The dataset description lacks column-level documentation, requiring field semantics to be inferred after download.
• The row count and total dataset size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The license is restrictive for commercial and derivative use (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Provenance

Source

MagicHub

Collection Method

Recorded with a microphone in a quiet indoor environment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-15 08:35:01.

Geography

Northeastern China (inferred from dialect).