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Alif Dataset — Arabic Letter Speech Recognition

Single-letter Arabic speech dataset containing recordings of the letter Alif (ا).

Dataset Details

Property Value
Language Arabic (ar)
Audio format WAV, 16 kHz, mono
Duration per sample ~1 second
Total samples 78
Train / Val / Test 62 / 8 / 8
Transcription ا
Label alif

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset, Audio

ds = load_dataset("YOUR_HF_USERNAME/alif-dataset")

# Cast audio column to 16 kHz
ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=16_000))

Note: metadata.csv contains a split column (train / validation / test).
Filter by split after loading, or use the prepare script in the accompanying Colab notebook.

Intended Use

Fine-tune openai/whisper-small (or any Whisper variant) for Arabic letter / isolated-word recognition.

Citation

@dataset{alif_dataset_2026,
  author    = {Masum Billah},
  title     = {Alif Arabic Letter Speech Dataset},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
}
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