freococo/70hours_myanmar_audio_jw_bible

📖 JW Myanmar Bible Audio-Text Dataset (New World Translation) — 56 Books / 70 Hours

This dataset is a fully aligned parallel corpus of Myanmar-language Bible audio and faithful Burmese transcriptions, taken from the New World Translation (NWT) published by Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW.org).

It combines a previously released 10-book collection with a newer 46-book expansion, now covering 56 books in total. Across 917 chapters, this dataset brings the Word to life — in crystal-clear Burmese narration, paired with precise, spiritual transcription.

“This is more than data — it is the rhythm of scripture in the voice of a people.”

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✨ Dataset Highlights

• 🎧 70+ hours of audio in high-quality .mp3 format
• 🗣️ Unicode-compliant Burmese text (Zawgyi-free)
• 🔗 One-to-one mapping between audio and text via file_name
• 🧾 Rich metadata: book name, chapter number, slug, and jw.org link
• 🧠 Ideal for:
  • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) training
  • Speech-text alignment
  • TTS (Text-to-Speech) voice modeling
  • Religious language modeling and spiritual AI

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📁 Format

file_name,audio_text,book_number,book_code,chapter_num,book_name,chapter_url
audio/nwt_01_Ge_BU_01.mp3,ကမ္ဘာဦးကျမ်း အခန်းကြီး (၁) အစအဦးမှာ ဘုရားသခင်က...

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🔍 Use Cases

• 🧠 ASR fine-tuning for Burmese speech
• 🗣️ TTS generation using scripture-based phonetics
• 📊 Linguistic analysis of religious spoken Burmese
• 🙏 Faith-based AI applications, audio Bibles, voice-guided scripture reading

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🚫 Excluded Books

The following 10 books are excluded due to lack of available audio:

• တရားသူကြီး (Judges)
• ရုသ (Ruth)
• ၁-ရှမွေလ (1 Samuel)
• ၂-ရှမွေလ (2 Samuel)
• ၁-ဘုရင်များ (1 Kings)
• ၂-ဘုရင်များ (2 Kings)
• ၁-ရာဇဝင်ချုပ် (1 Chronicles)
• ၂-ရာဇဝင်ချုပ် (2 Chronicles)
• ဟေရှာယ (Isaiah)
• ဟီဘရူး (Hebrews)

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💝 If You’ve Been Blessed

This dataset is free — but its origin is priceless.

If these 70 hours of spoken scripture have strengthened your faith, your research, or your connection to language and truth, please consider giving back.

Behind every chapter is a team of master translators, faithful narrators, and tireless coordinators. Their work ensures that the Burmese Bible is not only linguistically accurate — but spiritually beautiful and culturally resonant.

You can support their ongoing efforts directly:

👉 https://donate.jw.org/en

“The Word was spoken freely. But if it spoke to you — let your gift be a quiet thank you to the hands that shared it.”

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📛 License

License Type: Custom Non-Commercial License

This dataset is offered solely for non-commercial, educational, and research purposes. It is a derivative of content from JW.org and is shared under fair-use principles.

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🙌 Acknowledgments

With deepest gratitude to:

• The JW.org Myanmar Bible Team — translators whose linguistic brilliance, doctrinal clarity, and cultural reverence shine through every verse. Their rendering of the New World Translation in Burmese is more than a translation — it’s a masterwork of devotion, accessibility, and precision.

• The volunteer narrators — whose voices resonate not only with sound but with sincerity, beauty, and soul. Their performances elevate scripture into song, delivering both meaning and reverence in every word.

• The Burmese open-source language community — developers, engineers, linguists, and digital scribes who preserve the language in its digital, scriptural, and spoken forms. Their contribution makes it possible for Burmese to live not just in homes and hearts, but also in models, apps, and machine intelligence.

"These are not just contributors — they are keepers of the Word, guardians of clarity, and builders of digital scripture."

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📛 License

License Type: Custom Non-Commercial License

This dataset is offered solely for non-commercial, educational, and research purposes. It is a derivative of content from JW.org and is shared under fair-use principles.

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🙌 Acknowledgments

With deepest gratitude to:

• The JW.org Myanmar Bible Team — translators whose linguistic brilliance, doctrinal clarity, and cultural reverence shine through every verse. Their rendering of the New World Translation in Burmese is more than a translation — it’s a masterwork of devotion, accessibility, and precision.

• The volunteer narrators — whose voices resonate not only with sound but with sincerity, beauty, and soul. Their performances elevate scripture into song, delivering both meaning and reverence in every word.

• The Burmese open-source language community — developers, engineers, linguists, and digital scribes who preserve the language in its digital, scriptural, and spoken forms. Their contribution makes it possible for Burmese to live not just in homes and hearts, but also in models, apps, and machine intelligence.

"These are not just contributors — they are keepers of the Word, guardians of clarity, and builders of digital scripture."

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💬 Notes from the Curator

This dataset is a work of devotion — not sponsored, not funded — but powered by love for language, scripture, and open knowledge.

— freococo

“The Word becomes speech. Speech becomes data. Data becomes understanding.”

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📌 Citation

@misc{jw_myanmar_audio_70hrs_2025,
  title        = {JW Myanmar Bible Audio-Text Dataset (70 Hours, 56-Book Edition)},
  author       = {freococo},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/70hours_myanmar_audio_jw_bible},
  note         = {70 hours of aligned Myanmar Bible audio + text for ASR, TTS, and Burmese NLP research}
}

👉 Dataset homepage: https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/70hours_myanmar_audio_jw_bible