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-# voxceleb
-mirror of VoxCeleb dataset - a large-scale speaker identification dataset
+# VoxCeleb
+mirror of [VoxCeleb dataset - a large-scale speaker identification dataset](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/)
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+This repo contains the download links to the VoxCeleb dataset, described in [1]. 
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+VoxCeleb contains over 100,000 utterances for 1,251 celebrities, extracted from videos uploaded to YouTube. The dataset is gender balanced, with 55% of the speakers male. The speakers span a wide range of different ethnicities, accents, professions and ages. There are no overlapping identities between development and test sets.
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+|	              | dev     |  test |
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+|# of speakers    | 1,211   | 40    |
+|# of videos      | 21,819  | 677   |
+|# of utterances  | 139,124 | 6,255 |
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+Nationality Distribution: The nationalities of the speakers in the dataset were obtained by crawling Wikipedia and can be found here. You can also view the distribution in the following graph:
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+![distribution of speakers nationality](./data/v1/country.png)
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+The list of duplicates (34 videos only in the train set) can be found [here](./data/v1/duplicates.txt).
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+The train/val/test split used in [1] below for Speaker Identification can be found [here](./data/v1/Identification_split.txt).
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+Models: 
+ - Pretrained models from dataset authors for VGGVox - Speaker Identification and Verification [1] can be found [here](https://github.com/a-nagrani/VGGVox).
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+Publications:
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+[1] A. Nagrani, J. S. Chung, A. Zisserman - [VoxCeleb: a large-scale speaker identification dataset](./docs/2017-Nagrani-VoxCeleb_large-scale_speaker_identification_dataset.pdf) - INTERSPEECH, 2017
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+[2] Yifan He, Zhang Zhang - [Speaker Identication with VoxCeleb DataSet](./docs/2017-YifajHeZhangZhang-Speaker_Identication_with_VoxCeleb_DataSet-stanford_students_raport.pdf) - Stanford students project, 2017