New Dataset New Dataset Preview: Whisper and Aspiration (Human Vocality Primitives)

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New Dataset Preview: Whisper and Aspiration (Human Vocality Primitives)

Hi everyone — I’ve just released a new audio dataset preview from Harmonic Frontier Audio focused on whisper phonation and aspiration-based vocal gestures.

Whisper and Aspiration (Preview) is part of the Human Vocality Primitives series and is designed to capture airflow-driven, unvoiced vocal behaviors that sit at the boundary between breath noise and speech.

:link: Dataset:
Whisper and Aspiration Preview

What’s included

  • 5 high-fidelity preview audio files (.wav)

  • Recorded at 96 kHz / 24-bit, mono

  • Neutral, non-lexical whisper phonation

  • Fricative whisper gestures and airflow variations

  • Transitions into and out of silence

  • Structured metadata following a consistent Foundations schema

  • Full README, rights declaration, and changelog included

Why this dataset

Whisper phonation and aspiration are foundational components of:

  • speech production

  • expressive voice synthesis

  • breath-aware AI voice systems

  • phonetics and vocal physiology research

This dataset is intentionally non-semantic and non-linguistic, focusing on acoustic primitives rather than spoken content, making it suitable for research, modeling, and evaluation without linguistic bias.

Licensing

  • Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial use

  • Commercial licensing available via Harmonic Frontier Audio

  • All recordings are original, rights-cleared, and performer-owned

Notes

This is a preview pack, intended to demonstrate dataset quality, structure, and metadata conventions.
The full Whisper and Aspiration dataset includes a substantially larger set of airflow and whisper primitives and is available for licensing.

Feedback and questions are welcome.
If you find the dataset useful, a :heart: on Hugging Face helps others discover it.

Thanks for taking a look.

— Blake
Harmonic Frontier Audio

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