---
language:
- adh
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
tags:
- papoli
- japadhola
- community-collected
- buair
- buaiir
- uganda
pretty_name: PopoliVoice — Papoli Community Speech
---

# PopoliVoice (`BUAIR/popolivoice`)

Community-contributed **Japadhola** speech from the **Papoli farming community** (Tororo District, Uganda).
Maintained by **BUAIIR** — Busitema University AI & Innovation Research Lab.

This is the **BUAIR org** release. A copy is also available at `Bateesa/popolivoice`.

```python
from datasets import load_dataset, Audio
ds = load_dataset("BUAIR/popolivoice", split="train")
ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=16_000))
```

**License:** CC BY 4.0  
**Updated:** 2026-08-13