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+license: cc-by-sa-4.0
+pretty_name: OpenBibleTTS
+language:
+- arb
+- asm
+- ben
+- ckb
+- hne
+- nya
+- dwr
+- luo
+- ewe
+- gmv
+- gof
+- guj
+- hat
+- hau
+- hil
+- hin
+- ibo
+- kan
+- kik
+- lin
+- lug
+- mal
+- mar
+- nde
+- nep
+- orm
+- pan
+- sna
+- swh
+- tam
+- tel
+- tur
+- twi
+- urd
+- vie
+- yor
+task_categories:
+- text-to-speech
+- automatic-speech-recognition
+size_categories:
+- 1M<n<10M
+tags:
+- speech
+- text-to-speech
+- tts
+- speech-synthesis
+- multilingual
+- low-resource
+- bible
+- africa
+- forced-alignment
 dataset_info:
 - config_name: Arabic Standard
   features:
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   - split: train
     path: Yoruba/train-*
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+
+# OpenBibleTTS
+
+**OpenBibleTTS** is a large-scale, multilingual speech corpus for **low-resource text-to-speech (TTS)**, spanning **37 underrepresented languages** across five regions. It contains **~3,469 hours** of aligned, verse-level read speech and **1,121,956 utterances**, derived from the [Open Bible](https://www.open.bible/) platform and released under a permissive license.
+
+- **Alignment pipeline:** https://github.com/davidguzmanr/open-bible-resources
+- **Source:** [Open Bible](https://www.open.bible/) (CC BY-SA)
+
+## Languages
+
+Africa (19), South Asia (13), Southeast Asia (2), Middle East (2), Caribbean (1); nine language families and seven scripts. Load each language by its **config name** (first column). Note: `Arabic Standard` = *Egyptian Arabic* (`arb`) and `Ndebele` = *Northern Ndebele* (`nde`).
+
+| Config name | ISO 639-3 | Region | Family | Script | Hours | Utterances |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---:|---:|
+| Arabic Standard | arb | Africa | Afro-Asiatic | Arabic | 85.23 | 30,510 |
+| Assamese | asm | South Asia | Indo-European | Bengali | 104.49 | 30,530 |
+| Bengali | ben | South Asia | Indo-European | Bengali | 98.02 | 30,535 |
+| Central Kurdish | ckb | Middle East | Indo-European | Arabic | 85.40 | 30,565 |
+| Chhattisgarhi | hne | South Asia | Indo-European | Devanagari | 101.61 | 30,451 |
+| Chichewa | nya | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 110.98 | 30,322 |
+| Dawro | dwr | Africa | Afro-Asiatic | Latin | 116.98 | 29,579 |
+| Dholuo | luo | Africa | Nilo-Saharan | Latin | 76.02 | 30,429 |
+| Ewe | ewe | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 95.86 | 30,164 |
+| Gamo | gmv | Africa | Afro-Asiatic | Latin | 107.07 | 30,200 |
+| Gofa | gof | Africa | Afro-Asiatic | Latin | 86.78 | 30,388 |
+| Gujarati | guj | South Asia | Indo-European | Gujarati | 83.09 | 30,447 |
+| Haitian Creole | hat | Caribbean | Creole | Latin | 104.03 | 30,597 |
+| Hausa | hau | Africa | Afro-Asiatic | Latin | 99.60 | 30,717 |
+| Hiligaynon | hil | Southeast Asia | Austronesian | Latin | 106.43 | 29,260 |
+| Hindi | hin | South Asia | Indo-European | Devanagari | 99.09 | 30,438 |
+| Igbo | ibo | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 94.46 | 30,011 |
+| Kannada | kan | South Asia | Dravidian | Kannada | 104.86 | 30,495 |
+| Kikuyu | kik | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 87.08 | 30,722 |
+| Lingala | lin | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 128.49 | 28,790 |
+| Luganda | lug | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 101.75 | 30,440 |
+| Malayalam | mal | South Asia | Dravidian | Malayalam | 86.12 | 30,190 |
+| Marathi | mar | South Asia | Indo-European | Devanagari | 92.35 | 30,573 |
+| Ndebele | nde | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 100.76 | 30,161 |
+| Nepali | nep | South Asia | Indo-European | Devanagari | 106.63 | 30,347 |
+| Oromo | orm | Africa | Afro-Asiatic | Latin | 99.16 | 30,413 |
+| Punjabi | pan | South Asia | Indo-European | Gurmukhi | 86.16 | 30,496 |
+| Shona | sna | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 74.66 | 30,685 |
+| Swahili | swh | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 96.38 | 30,634 |
+| Tamil | tam | South Asia | Dravidian | Tamil | 92.93 | 30,516 |
+| Telugu | tel | South Asia | Dravidian | Telugu | 93.18 | 30,059 |
+| Turkish | tur | Middle East | Turkic | Latin | 63.50 | 29,747 |
+| Twi (Akuapem) | twi | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 71.20 | 30,270 |
+| Twi (Asante) | twi | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 78.87 | 30,565 |
+| Urdu | urd | South Asia | Indo-European | Arabic | 88.26 | 30,634 |
+| Vietnamese | vie | Southeast Asia | Austroasiatic | Latin | 71.62 | 30,451 |
+| Yoruba | yor | Africa | Niger-Congo | Latin | 89.91 | 30,625 |
+| **Total** | | | | | **3,469.01** | **1,121,956** |
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+Each language is a separate config with a single `train` split. One row = one verse:
+
+| Field | Type | Description |
+|---|---|---|
+| `audio` | audio | Verse-level mono waveform (sampling rate varies by language) |
+| `text` | string | Verse transcript, original punctuation preserved |
+| `testament` | string | `Old Testament` or `New Testament` |
+| `book` / `chapter` / `verse` | string | Scripture reference |
+| `duration_seconds` | float | Clip duration |
+| `speaker_id` | string | Narrator label from diarization |
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+ds = load_dataset("multilingual-tts/open-bible", "Yoruba")
+```
+
+## Limitations
+
+Read, scripture-domain speech with a narrow vocabulary and formal register, models may not transfer well to conversational speech. Speaker labels and forced alignments are automatic and may contain errors.
+
+## License
+
+All audio and transcripts come from [Open Bible](https://www.open.bible/) under **CC BY-SA**; derivatives must be shared under compatible terms with attribution retained. Provided as a speech-technology resource only.
+
+<!-- ## Citation
+
+A reference for OpenBibleTTS will be added here. -->