# How to load local librispeech?

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**Author:** ![Miamoto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miamoto](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FMiamoto)%5C
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Hello! I am new to Hugginface and I was trying to use the load\_dataset function for loading librispeech test set like this:

librispeech\_eval = load\_dataset(“librispeech\_asr”, “clean”, split=“test”)

Nevertheless, I already have Librispeech in my computer, so I do not want to have 2 downloads of it. How can I force load\_dataset to go load data from my folder and not download anything again?

Thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![mariosasko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/mariosasko/32/31548_2.png) [@mariosasko](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmariosasko)%5C
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You can clone the repo and adjust the paths in it to reference your local files. When done with that, you can load the dataset with `load_dataset("path/to/local/script", "clean", split="test")`.