Dataset Card for "hausa_long_voice_dataset"

Dataset Overview

Dataset Name: Hausa Long Voice Dataset

Description: This dataset contains merged Hausa language audio samples from Common Voice. Audio files from the same speaker have been concatenated to create longer audio samples with their corresponding transcriptions, designed for text-to-speech (TTS) training where longer sequences are beneficial.

Dataset Structure

Configs:

• default

Data Files:

• Split: train

Dataset Info:

• Features:
  • audio: Merged audio file (mono, 22.05kHz)
  • transcription: Concatenated text transcription in Hausa
  • speaker_id: ID of the speaker
  • num_segments: Number of original segments merged

Usage

To load this dataset in your Python environment using Hugging Face's datasets library, use the following code:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("mide7x/hausa_long_voice_dataset")

Dataset Creation

This dataset was derived from Mozilla Common Voice Hausa collections. The audio files from the same speaker were merged with a small silence between segments. The corresponding transcriptions were concatenated to match the merged audio.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

This dataset helps promote technological inclusion for the Hausa language, which is spoken by over 80 million people primarily in Northern Nigeria, Niger, and other parts of West Africa. The longer audio samples are particularly useful for training more natural-sounding TTS systems.

Discussion of Biases

The dataset may reflect biases present in the Common Voice collection process, including speaker demographics and sentence selection biases. Additionally, the merging process introduces artificial transitions between naturally spoken segments.

Citation Information

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@misc{hausa_long_voice_dataset,
  author = {Dataset Creator},
  title = {Hausa Long Voice Dataset},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/mide7x/hausa_long_voice_dataset}}
}