AfricanVoices

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Speech datasets of real African audio with matching transcriptions, for voice AI or NLP research.

Speech · ASR

Nigerian Pidgin

Nigerian Pidgin speech recordings with matching transcriptions, covering everyday, agriculture, health and finance topics.

Samples
370,349
Audio
954 hrs
Size
461.6 GB
License
CC BY 4.0
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Speech · ASR

Yoruba

Yoruba speech recordings with matching transcriptions, covering everyday, health, finance and agriculture topics.

Samples
164,285
Audio
484 hrs
Size
228.6 GB
License
CC BY 4.0
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Speech · ASR

Hausa

Hausa speech recordings with matching transcriptions, mostly everyday conversation plus agriculture and health topics.

Samples
43,995
Audio
484 hrs
Size
188.0 GB
License
CC BY 4.0
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Speech · ASR

Igbo

Igbo speech recordings with matching transcriptions, covering everyday, agriculture, finance and health topics.

Samples
139,707
Audio
477 hrs
Size
179.8 GB
License
CC BY 4.0
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African Voices - Multilingual Speech Dataset