khursanirevo/malay_dub_project

Malay Dub Project

A preservation archive of Malaysian Bahasa Melayu (BM) audio dubs — cartoon/anime-first, strictly Malaysian (NOT Indonesian). Audio is YouTube- derived; this dataset is PRIVATE and intended for preservation/research. Re-hosting or public redistribution is a separate, deliberate decision.

⚠️ Composition caveat (read me): the confirmed_ms config is preservation- broad — it contains ALL audio the language classifier tagged primary=ms, which includes some non-dub Malay audio (reaction commentary, toy/unboxing videos). Use the mission_target column (see below) to filter to the cartoon/anime-dub subset. The split and the largest non-mission channels are stated explicitly below so nothing is buried.

Configs

config	dir	files	size	mission_target=True	=False
confirmed_ms	data/	3620	128.08 GB	1447	2173
review_unconfirmed	review_unconfirmed/	62	0.66 GB	58	4

Total: 3682 files, 128.74 GB (compiled 2026-07-09).

confirmed_ms (primary)

Active audio with a classifier sidecar primary_lang="ms". The mission subset (mission_target=True, 1447/3620) is plausibly cartoon/anime- dub content. The remainder (mission_target=False, 2173) is other Malay audio — preserved for cultural value but NOT dubs. Largest non-mission channels:

• 598 — Jiha Ch
• 475 — Putri Comel1401
• 208 — Akmal Channel
• 138 — MuharniMus
• 59 — Rareghost Toys

review_unconfirmed

62 files with explicit Malay-provenance titles (e.g. "Versi Melayu", "Pengalih Suara Malaysia", Filem Negara Malaysia) whose audio the classifier could NOT confirm as ms (ASR blanks on singing/SFX; primary in {unknown, id}). These are rescued from deep-quarantine for human/later re-adjudication — NOT mixed with confirmed-ms. Includes Malay covers of anime/tokusatsu OPs (Transirama "Versi Melayu"), Malaysian dubs, and Filem Negara Malaysia classics.

mission_target rule

True if any of:

1. show is non-null (title matched a curated Malay-dub show list — anime, cartoon, tokusatsu, etc.), OR
2. the title carries a dub marker (dub, alih suara, versi melayu, pengalih suara, dubbing melayu), OR
3. the channel is a known dub studio (e.g. Pengalih Suara Malaysia / MOHD AMERUL AIDIL).

It is a filter hint, not authoritative — recall-biased; some non-mission files may be tagged True and a few dubs missed. The classifier is the ultimate backstop.

Schema (metadata.jsonl, one object per MP3)

file_name (audio path relative to the config dir), title, channel, channel_id, source_url, upload_date (YYYYMMDD), duration_s, primary_lang, languages (list), confidence, classifier, sample_count, capture_date (ISO), show (curated show or null), mission_target (bool), sha256, plus extras video_id, config.

Fixity / integrity

Every file has a sha256. The full registry also lives locally in sha256_cache.json; verify any file by re-hashing and comparing.

Refresh / sync

The 3-day offsite refresh uploads in incremental mode: staged files are added/overwritten onto this repo (no delete — the project's HF token is write-only). As a result, files removed from the local archive are NOT pruned here and may linger. This is a growing preservation archive, so the direction of drift is additive; for a clean recompute the repo is swapped via the --fresh safe-swap with a delete-capable token.

Load

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("khursanirevo/malay_dub_project", "confirmed_ms")
dubs = ds.filter(lambda r: r["mission_target"])  # the mission subset

Compiled 2026-07-09 by the malaydub preservation pipeline.