datasets 1.18.0 on Python PyPI

Datasets Changes

New: VCTK
- Add VCTK dataset by @jaketae in #3351
- Fix VCTK encoding by @lhoestq in #3493
- Docs: Add VCTK dataset description by @jaketae in #3500
New: CPPE-5 dataset by @mariosasko in #3517
New: RedCaps dataset by @mariosasko in #3424
New: WIDER FACE dataset by @mariosasko in #3413
New: SVHN dataset by @mariosasko in #3535
New: BNL newspapers by @davanstrien in #3397
New: PASS dataset by @mariosasko in #3576
New: Text2log Dataset by @apergo-ai in #3579
Update: beans, cats_vs_dogs - Use iter_files instead of str(Path(...) in image dataset by @mariosasko in #3477
Update : PIB - update version and make it streamable by @albertvillanova in #3496
Update: code_x_glue_tt_text_to_text, compguesswhat - Remove print statements in datasets by @mariosasko in #3546
Update: MuchoCine - add missing tasks by @mariosasko in #3571
Fix: Tashkeela - fix to yield stripped text by @albertvillanova in #3471
Fix: asset - change to raw.githubusercontent.com URLs by @VictorSanh in #3516
Fix: CC100 - use HTTPS for the data source URL by @aajanki in #3519
Fix: vision datsets - Fix bug in ImageClassifcation task template by @mariosasko in #3557
Fix: tweet_qa - fix DuplicatedKeysError and improve card by @mariosasko in #3559
Fix: mC4 - fix multiple language downloading by @polinaeterna in #3594
Fix: CoNLL2003:
- Use old url for conll2003 by @lhoestq in #3600
- Update url for conll2003 by @lhoestq in #3602
- Add conll2003 licensing by @lhoestq in #3601

[Time series] Add support for time, date, duration, and decimal dtypes by @mariosasko in #3591
[Image][Audio] Add flexible casting for Image and Audio + Support nested casting by @lhoestq in #3575
Allows DatasetDict.filter to have batching option by @thomasw21 in #3506
Add desc parameter to filter by @mariosasko in #3513
Add gzip for to_json by @bhavitvyamalik in #3492
Allow multiple task templates of the same type by @mariosasko in #3562
Add parameter preserve_index to from_pandas by @Sorrow321 in #3565
Dataset Streaming:
- Fix str(Path(...)) conversion in streaming on Linux by @mariosasko in #3472
- Extend support for streaming datasets that use ET.parse by @albertvillanova in #3476
- Extend support for streaming datasets that use os.walk by @albertvillanova in #3478

Fix rendering of docs by @albertvillanova in #3470
Fix to_tf_dataset references in docs by @mariosasko in #3514
added PII statements and license links to data cards by @mcmillanmajora in #3537
Readme usage update by @meg-huggingface in #3538
Update the CC-100 dataset card by @aajanki in #3542
Research wording for nc licenses by @meg-huggingface in #3539
Added links to licensing and PII message in vctk dataset by @mcmillanmajora in #3523
Give clearer instructions to add the YAML tags by @albertvillanova in #3532

Fix overriding of filesystem info by @albertvillanova in #3481
Update ADD_NEW_DATASET.md by @apergo-ai in #3487
Fix weird spacing in ManualDownloadError message by @bryant1410 in #3486
Clone full repo to detect new tags when mirroring datasets on the Hub by @lhoestq in #3494
Remove unused phony rule from Makefile by @bryant1410 in #3483
fix: 🐛 pass token when retrieving the split names by @severo in #3545
Pin torchmetrics to fix the COMET test by @lhoestq in #3589
Preserve encoding/decoding with features in Iterable.map call by @mariosasko in #3556

Full Changelog: 1.17.0...1.18.0