---
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](https://www.scoinvestigator.com/)

*License: cc-by-4.0*