Datasets:

naijavoices
/

naijavoices-dataset

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	extra_gated_heading: "You need to register at NaijaVoices to use this dataset. It'll only take a minute"
	extra_gated_prompt: "Click [here](https://naijavoices.com/membership) to register on NaijaVoices in the tier that corresponds to your use case."
	extra_gated_fields:
	First Name: text
	Last Name: text
	Email address (used during registration): text
	I have registered on NaijaVoices and obtained a membership: checkbox
	---




	>Important Information: please be aware that this version of the dataset is huge (500+ GB) and can therefore be challenging to use. To alleviate this and facilitate adoption, we’ve provided a compressed version (84GB) [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/naijavoices/naijavoices-dataset-compressed). We suggest using that instead if you have compute/storage constraints. They are both the exact same data.

	## Introduction

	Welcome to the NaijaVoices dataset. The NaijaVoices dataset consists of 1,800 hours of authentic speech (from over 5,000 diverse speakers!) and expert curated text in Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba. ~600 hours for each of the three languages. It also boasts of adequate female representation and balanced age-range distribution (young to old speakers). For more about the dataset info visit our website: [https://naijavoices.com/](https://naijavoices.com/). By using this dataset, you acknowledge reading and accepting to use this dataset accoridng to the [data usage terms and conditions](https://naijavoices.com/terms-and-conditions).


	## Metadata

	Each row contains the audio data, the transcript, the language of the transcript, the speaker id, along with their gender and age-range. Use the “Dataset Viewer” to look at the dataset.


	## Usage

	To ease usage, we divided the dataset into batches. Specifically, we batched the dataset into their languages, and further into three uniform batches for each language. Each batch should contain approximately 167 hours. We obtained the following batches:


	1. `igbo-batch-0`
	2. `igbo-batch-1`
	3. `igbo-batch-2`
	4. `yoruba-batch-0`
	5. `yoruba-batch-1`
	6. `yoruba-batch-2`
	7. `hausa-batch-0`
	8. `hausa-batch-1`
	9. `hausa-batch-2`

	To load a specific batch run (e.g. “igbo-batch-1”:

	```python

	from datasets import load_dataset

	# If the dataset is gated/private, make sure you have run "huggingface-cli login"
	dataset = load_dataset("naijavoices/naijavoices-dataset","igbo-batch-1")

	```

	If you want to load the whole dataset, then just do
	```python
	dataset = load_dataset("naijavoices/naijavoices-dataset")
	```

	It is advisable to load the batch in streaming mode by setting `streaming=True`

	```python
	# Streaming mode
	dataset = load_dataset("naijavoices/naijavoices-dataset", streaming=True)

	```



	## License

	The NaijaVoices dataset is licensed under the [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en) license. Basically, It's free for research (non-commercial) use, with proper credit to the community. For commercial interests, please [check out our membership tiers](https://naijavoices.com/membership#membership_tiers) which offer special commercial waivers.