Datasets:

Dama12
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dioula-speech-dataset

language:
  - dyu
license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - audio
  - speech-to-text
  - text-to-speech
  - dioula
  - jula
  - african-languages
pretty_name: Dioula Speech Dataset
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

Dioula Speech Dataset 🗣️🌍

This is a comprehensive, open-source dataset for the Dioula (Jula) language, a Manding language widely spoken across West Africa (primarily in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and Mali).

Dataset Structure

The dataset contains the following folders:

audio/: Normalized .wav audio files (16kHz).
processed/: .csv files mapping audio file names to their cleaned Dioula text transcriptions.
transcripts/: Raw text transcripts.

Intended Uses

This dataset is specifically designed for building AI models for low-resource languages:

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): Training Speech-to-Text models (like Whisper).
Text-to-Speech (TTS): Training voice synthesis models (like VITS/Coqui).
Linguistic Research: Preserving and analyzing the Dioula language.

Ethical Notice

About the Author

Developed and curated by Soumana Dama (Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer).

Founder & Lead AI Engineer at Scoinvestigator AI

License: cc-by-4.0