Thorsten Voice: German Speech Synthesis Data with CC0 License

Thorsten-Voice provides German-language audio recordings and text transcripts for speech synthesis, created by Thorsten Müller and updated in February 2026. The dataset is designed to facilitate the creation of high-quality, offline German text-to-speech (TTS) models without licensing restrictions.

Use Cases

• Training neural text-to-speech models using the German audio recordings
• Fine-tuning speech recognition systems for the German language
• Developing offline voice assistants using the CC0-licensed audio data

Strengths

• Released under CC0-1.0 public domain license
• Specifically designed for German language speech synthesis
• Maintained by a single consistent speaker (Thorsten Müller)

Limitations

• Single-speaker dataset which limits voice variety
• Total duration and word count are not specified in the metadata

Provenance

Source

Thorsten Müller (thorstenMueller)

Collection Method

Recorded by the author

Freshness

Updated as recently as February 2026.

Geography

Germany