# Setting local path for Dataset: Fine-tuning Whisper model

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**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsetting-local-path-for-dataset-fine-tuning-whisper-model%2F58176 "2023-10-11T13:53:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![P15V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@P15V](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FP15V)%5C
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsetting-local-path-for-dataset-fine-tuning-whisper-model%2F58176%2F1 "2023-10-11T13:53:07Z")

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Hello all,

I hope whoever reads this is doing well!!

Apologies if this is a silly question. I’m working on my first real attempt at fine-tuning a whisper model & first time using Hugging Face as a resource. I worked off of this as a test run for training and it went surprisingly well. [https://huggingface.co/blog/fine-tune-whisper](https://huggingface.co/blog/fine-tune-whisper)  
My big question is, how would I set the dataset path, to a local path? At least my current plan was to concatenate my custom data with the Mozilla dataset used in this hugging face blog post, I have it downloaded locally.

Thanks for every ones time, and any help at all!!!

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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
**Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsetting-local-path-for-dataset-fine-tuning-whisper-model%2F58176%2F2 "2023-10-16T13:29:26Z")

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Hi! [This](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/audio_load) section in the datasets docs explains how to load a local audio dataset.

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**Author:** ![P15V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@P15V](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FP15V)%5C
**Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsetting-local-path-for-dataset-fine-tuning-whisper-model%2F58176%2F3 "2023-11-13T20:33:00Z")

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Hello Marisako,

hope all is well!!  
Sorry for the delay, thanks for the info 😃