---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: id
    dtype: string
  - name: language
    dtype: string
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 54665637580
    num_examples: 423
  download_size: 53917768734
  dataset_size: 54665637580
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
- multilingual
task_categories:
- audio-to-audio
- audio-classification
---

Jesus Dramas is a collection of religious audio dramas across 430 languages. In total, there is around 640 hours of audio.
It can be used for language identification, spoken language modelling, or speech representation learning.
This dataset includes the raw unsegmented audio in a 16kHz single channel format. Each audio drama can have multiple speakers, for both male and female voices.
It can be segmented into utterances with a voice activity detection (VAD) model such as this [one](https://github.com/wiseman/py-webrtcvad).
The original audio sources wwere crawled from [InspirationalFilms](https://www.inspirationalfilms.com/). 

We use this corpus to train [XEUS](https://huggingface.co/espnet/xeus), a multilingual speech encoder for 4000+ languages.
For more details about the dataset and its usage, please refer to our [paper](https://wanchichen.github.io/pdf/xeus.pdf) or [project page](https://www.wavlab.org/activities/2024/xeus/).

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("espnet/jesus_dramas")
```

Each example in the dataset has three fields:

```
{
  'id': the utterance id,
  'language': the language name
  'audio': the raw audio
}
```


## License and Acknowledgement

Jesus Dramas is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

If you use this dataset, we ask that you cite our paper:

```
@misc{chen2024robustspeechrepresentationlearning,
      title={Towards Robust Speech Representation Learning for Thousands of Languages}, 
      author={William Chen and Wangyou Zhang and Yifan Peng and Xinjian Li and Jinchuan Tian and Jiatong Shi and Xuankai Chang and Soumi Maiti and Karen Livescu and Shinji Watanabe},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2407.00837},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00837}, 
}
```
And attribute the original creators of the data.