hadamard-2/alffa-amharic

ALFFA Amharic Speech Corpus

Read speech corpus for Amharic (አማርኛ) automatic speech recognition, converted to HuggingFace Datasets format from the original ALFFA project.

Dataset Structure

{
    'audio': Audio(sampling_rate=16000),
    'utterance_id': 'tr_10000_tr097082',
    'transcript': 'ይህ አማርኛ ጽሑፍ ነው',
    'speaker_id': '097',
    'split': 'train'
}

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("hadamard-2/alffa-amharic")

# Access audio and transcript
example = dataset['train'][0]
print(example['transcript'])
audio_array = example['audio']['array']
sampling_rate = example['audio']['sampling_rate']

Splits

• Train: 10,875 utterances
• Test: 359 utterances

Citation

@InProceedings {Abate2005,
    Author = {Solomon Teferra Abate and Wolfgang Menzel and Bairu Tafila},
    booktitle = {INTERSPEECH-2005},
    Title =  {An Amharic Speech Corpus for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition},
    Year = {2005}
}

License

MIT License (from OpenSLR)