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Curious to know why don't researchers use Audiobooks/Videos and transcript when data is not available? Is it because these do not capture different dialects/accents?

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Those tend to be read in artificial voices. They are useful for some things, but it isn't real speach so it isn't as generally useful.

I suppose there might some copyright issues with such content (?)

Well there is Librivox...

Indeed, that's what one of the famous established datasets, LibriSpeech, bases on.

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