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# Dholuo Speech Data (Pooled)
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[AfroNet](https://github.com/osinkolu/afronet-tts-data) multi-language TTS data
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[**Anv-ke/Dholuo**](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anv-ke/Dholuo) — African Next
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Voices, a pilot data-collection effort in Kenya led by the KenCorpus Consortium (a
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coalition of Kenyan universities and research centers), funded by the Gates
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Foundation. 91,672 clips, 186.1h,
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## Structure and what "transcribed" means here
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| `key`, `shard` | which tar file + entry holds this clip's audio |
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| `text` | transcript (native Dholuo script) |
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| `duration` | seconds |
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| `source` |
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| `dataset_id` | always `0` |
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| `split` | `train` / `val` (250 clips held out for evaluation) |
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| `speaker_id` | Anv-ke's `recorder_uuid` |
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| `gender` | speaker metadata
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| `domain` | e.g. `scripted/Agriculture and Food`, `unscripted/Education and Technology` |
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| `dbfs`, `clip_ratio`, `sil_ratio` | cheap DSP quality proxies: loudness, fraction of clipped samples, fraction of near-silent frames |
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| `has_disfluency` | always `false` — this source doesn't flag disfluencies |
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## License
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CC BY 4.0, per the upstream [Anv-ke/Dholuo](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anv-ke/Dholuo)
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## Acknowledgments
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Deep thanks to the **KenCorpus Consortium / African Next Voices** for the
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This dataset was pooled by **Victor Olufemi and LyngualLabs** as part of the
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[AfroNet](https://github.com/osinkolu/afronet-tts-data) multi-language TTS data effort.
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# Dholuo Speech Data (Pooled)
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A **~191.5-hour** Dholuo (Luo) speech corpus, pooled from two independent sources
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and filtered to only genuinely transcribed audio. Part of the
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[AfroNet](https://github.com/osinkolu/afronet-tts-data) multi-language TTS data
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## Sources
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- [**Anv-ke/Dholuo**](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anv-ke/Dholuo) — African Next
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Voices, a pilot data-collection effort in Kenya led by the KenCorpus Consortium (a
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coalition of Kenyan universities and research centers), funded by the Gates
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Foundation. 91,672 clips, 186.1h, `source` = `anv_ke`. **Gated on HuggingFace** — an
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account must click through the access request on the dataset page before the API
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can download it.
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- **Mozilla Common Voice 26.0**, Dholuo (`luo`) locale, accessed via the
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[Mozilla Data Collective](https://mozilladatacollective.com/) mirror
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(`datacollective` Python SDK). `train` split only. 4,033 clips, 5.3h, `source` =
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`common_voice`. Crowdsourced, community-validated read speech, CC0-1.0.
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These two sources are independent (different collection institutions and
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methodologies), so no overlap/deduplication concern applies here, unlike some other
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sources in this collection.
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## Structure and what "transcribed" means here
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| `key`, `shard` | which tar file + entry holds this clip's audio |
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| `text` | transcript (native Dholuo script) |
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| `duration` | seconds |
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| `source` | `anv_ke` or `common_voice` |
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| `dataset_id` | always `0` |
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| `split` | `train` / `val` (250 clips held out for evaluation) |
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| `speaker_id` | Anv-ke's `recorder_uuid`, or Common Voice's `client_id` |
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| `gender` | speaker metadata where available |
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| `domain` | e.g. `scripted/Agriculture and Food`, `unscripted/Education and Technology` (Anv-ke rows only; `null` for Common Voice rows) |
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| `dbfs`, `clip_ratio`, `sil_ratio` | cheap DSP quality proxies: loudness, fraction of clipped samples, fraction of near-silent frames |
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| `has_disfluency` | always `false` — this source doesn't flag disfluencies |
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## License
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CC BY 4.0 for the Anv-ke portion, per the upstream [Anv-ke/Dholuo](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anv-ke/Dholuo)
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release; CC0 1.0 for the Common Voice portion, per upstream Common Voice.
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## Acknowledgments
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Deep thanks to the **KenCorpus Consortium / African Next Voices** for the Anv-ke
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portion (Gates Foundation-funded), and to **Mozilla Common Voice** and its Dholuo
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contributors for the Common Voice portion, hosted via the **Mozilla Data
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Collective**.
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This dataset was pooled by **Victor Olufemi and LyngualLabs** as part of the
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[AfroNet](https://github.com/osinkolu/afronet-tts-data) multi-language TTS data effort.
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