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text stringlengths 5 147	english_transcript stringlengths 5 952	language stringclasses 2 values	speaker_id stringclasses 12 values
Akanyonyi kayingidde mu kibiina nga tusoma.	A bird has entered the classroom while we were studying.	luganda	lug_spk6
Abantu abamu bakola ebintu olw'ebigendererwa byabwe.	Some people do things for their own gain.	luganda	lug_spk6
pep guardiola hapendi kudumu na timu	I've got a really strong guardial appendage to my team that I'm working on.	kiswahili	swa_spk2
Okuva lwe nnatandika okukola ebintu bino sibeera na budde.	Since I started doing these things, I have no time.	luganda	lug_spk6
Upepo wa mvua kubwa umekuwa kipengele cha mara kwa mara kando ya pwani	They were able to access the world's most beautiful foods, including the world's largest ever bird's-eye view.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Abantu tebeesiga tebeesiga bukulembeze bwa disitulikiti.	People do not trust the district leadership.	luganda	lug_spk3
Amazina bwe gaggwa, abantu bonna ne batandika okudda eka.	When the dancing ended, everyone started returning home.	luganda	lug_spk3
N'abakadde tebasaanye kulagajjalira abaana baabwe, anti mwana mugimu ava ku ngozi.	Even the old should not neglect their children, as a healthy child is a by-product of poor feeding.	luganda	lug_spk3
kawawa aliposikia taarifa za kifo cha sokoine alirudi dar es Salaam	I've had my breakfast with my son-in-law, who's a resident of Dar es Salaam.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Abayizi ba ddembe obutakola bibuuzo by'akamalirizo.	Students have a right not to sit for final exams.	luganda	lug_spk3
Abamenyi b'amateeka batwaliddwa mu mbuga z'amateeka	The lawbreakers have been taken to the courts of law.	luganda	lug_spk6
Muimbaji huyu amefanikiwa kutoa albamu mbalimbali	I was born in the United States of America, and I grew up in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Takriban hamsini walitekwa na kupelekwa Tanzania	Takriban Hamsini was later transferred to Tanzania.	kiswahili	swa_spk3
Wachaga walitangulia wakawahi kuishi maeneo yenye rutuba hasa kuzunguka mlima Kilimanjaro	And he was talking about one of the routes to the remotest mountain of Kilimanjaro, called Kilimanjaro itself.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
N'okutuusa kati gavumenti tevangayo kutegeeza nsi b'ani abatta abantu ku olwo.	The government has not yet come out to tell the world who killed people on that day.	luganda	lug_spk4
sikukuu za Mei mosi wafanyakazi wote bora	Now this past month, my dad spent a lot of time hanging out with me.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Naye ate munnange ng'anaakola ki anti lwagerwa dda nti, eyakusinze.	But what will my partner do when they have already been told that they are better than you?.	luganda	lug_spk1
Abalwadde mbawadde eddagala.	I have provided medicine to the patients.	luganda	lug_spk6
Bila kujua Mbatiany na Senteu kumbe Olonana alikuwa amejificha kwenye jamvi	I was baptized as a butterfly on the moonshot of the orange blossom when I was in the middle of nowhere, and it's a metaphor for something else.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Ebigambo bingi byogeddwa naye nga si bituufu.	Many statements have been made but they are not true.	luganda	lug_spk4
Nagezaako okubalabula ku kino naye tebaawuliriza.	I tried to warn them about this but they did not listen.	luganda	lug_spk2
Nnannimi ke kasongezo k'olulagala.	The tongue is the tip of the tongue.	luganda	lug_spk3
Kwa kiasi fulani ukomeshaji wa biashara ya utumwa ulikuwa unamanufaa ya kiuchumi kwao	And throughout the world, our economic growth was wiped out by the fact that we couldn't use any of our energy for it.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Abaafudde baabadde bameka?	How many deaths were there?	luganda	lug_spk5
Okufumbafumba kuyigiriza abaana emirimu gy'awaka.	Cooking teaches children how to do house chores.	luganda	lug_spk2
Ekitambaala kino kikadde nnyo.	This cloth is very old.	luganda	lug_spk1
Luli buli muntu yenna mu Buganda yalina obuvunaanyizibwa okugunjula abaana.	It was everyone's responsibility in Buganda to groom their children.	luganda	lug_spk6
Pamoja na hayo sultani alipokea kwa moyo mmoja wamisionari wakristo	I've never heard of them. I've never heard of them. I've never heard of them. I've never heard of them.	kiswahili	swa_spk2
Erinnyo lino ddene ku malala gonna ge nnina mu kamwa.	This tooth is the biggest one I have in my mouth.	luganda	lug_spk5
Ujerumani ilikuwa na vikosi vya kijeshi katika makoloni ya Afrika	Thank you very much for your hospitality to the African continent.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Kalangi akamyufu akabeera ku kabba y'ekkanzu kayitibwa Akasoke.	The red colour on the cloth cover is called Akasoke.	luganda	lug_spk5
baadaye alioa mke wa tatu aliyeitwa mama ngina	I was inspired by my father's name, my mother's name, and my father's name.	kiswahili	swa_spk2
Bannabyabufuzi be bakulembeze mu kitundu abasobola okukwasaganya ensonga z'abatuuze.	Politicians are leaders in the community who can manage the affairs of the citizens.	luganda	lug_spk5
Mgonjwa mwenye maambukizi ya virusi vya homa ya ini	I was actually handing out a precursor to this virus at the end of the day.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
eazza alikuwa anacheza kwenye klabu ya soka ya genoa	Now, in fact, we're very close to doing a cross-examination of the genome from a single piece of gene juice.	kiswahili	swa_spk3
Omuguwa gwantega emirundi nga mukaaga nga bwe nsituka nga bwe nzirawo.	The rope slammed me about six times as I stood up and returned.	luganda	lug_spk2
Olw'okuba nti yali atamidde teyajjukira nti mu kugenda emmanju ebisumuluzo yabiteeka mu nkwawa.	Because they were drunk, they did not remember that they put the keys in their bags on their way home.	luganda	lug_spk5
Mawenzi na Kibo zilianza kulipuka takriban miaka milioni iliyopita	The Chinese monkey with the Chinese banana slug for billions of years.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Vifaa vya majumbani kwa aina tofauti tofauti	I got my hair cut all the time from one thing to the other.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
flaviana matata amebadilisha fikra za wasichana wengi sana	Flavianna Matta is an American fruit and vegetable tree found in the United States for growing food.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Obutakwaatagana mu mawanga buyina kumalibwawo na kuteesagana mu kifo ky'obutabanguko.	Tribal disputes should be resolved with dialogue instead of violence.	luganda	lug_spk5
Obukakafu ku bwannanyinittaka bukendeeza ku nkaayana z'ettaka.	Proof of land ownership reduces land wrangles.	luganda	lug_spk4
Abakazi b'ennaku zino bakuba abasajja.	Women of late beat men.	luganda	lug_spk5
Ensonga ezizingirwa mu nkulaakulanya y'olulimi olunnansi	Issues involved in the development of an indigenous language	luganda	lug_spk5
Bw'atyo bwe yabuuza abasirikale abaali bakutte abasajja be.	So they asked the soldiers who arrested their men.	luganda	lug_spk2
Fedha yake ya pekee iliyoitwa Riala ya Zanzibar	I read all about this from the newspapers of Rio de Janeiro to Zanzibar.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Kila eneo utakalopita lazima ukutane na mlima mzuri na wa kupendeza	You're not supposed to eat anything you're not supposed to be drinking when you're pregnant.	kiswahili	swa_spk1
Wakuziikibwa enkya ku ssaawa munaana e Mpigi.	They will be buried tomorrow at two o'clock in Mpigi.	luganda	lug_spk3
kuwa ni siku laini kuwahi kutokea na kama vile alikuwa	That's why most of the world's people are sitting on top of this thing right now.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Nze ebintu byonna by'osomesezza mu butuufu sibitegedde.	I don't really understand all the things you have taught me.	luganda	lug_spk5
Alikuwa akichaguliwa kusoma taarifa ya habari kila siku asubuhi mbele ya wanafunzi	You're supposed to eat your entire life, except for a little bit of food.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Entomo ye yasooka kweyolekera ku lutalo luli olw'Ekibuuka-migogo.	Their myth first manifested itself during the Buganda-Migoga conflict.	luganda	lug_spk1
kwa nchi za Tanzania na Afrika kusini	From Tanzania to South Africa.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Waliwo obutakkaanya obwabalukawo mu kiseera nga ababaka bakyateeseganya.	There were disagreements during the legislature's negotiations.	luganda	lug_spk6
Kutoka Dar es salaam mpaka Mpanda mkoa ni Rukwa magharibi mwa Tanzania	And I was told that I was going to give my Dar es Salaam, the Eastern Maghreb, to Tanzania.	kiswahili	swa_spk2
Omuwala yeesomye nga bw'ali omugagga ennyo.	They are an educated girl who is very rich.	luganda	lug_spk3
Yani kutoka katika bara la Afrika hasa wale vijana wenye nguvu	And that means that all of Africa was affected by each other's actions.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Mtoto wa Kimaasai anapozaliwa hapatiwi jina rasmi	And this is the equivalent of a giant sixgill net, just like any other large sixgill net.	kiswahili	swa_spk3
kamwe hawana athari yoyote kwa binadamu	Now, the Hawaiian Islands are famous for their kind of food — basically, everything they eat.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Okwagazisa omwana okusoma ennyo.	Encourage children to study hard.	luganda	lug_spk5
Katika uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka elfu moja mia tisa sitini na tano	I'm thinking of this song, I'm reading this song, and I'm putting it on my dad's plate.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Leero nze muwandiisi w'olukiiko luno.	Today I am the secretary for this meeting.	luganda	lug_spk6
Kukinga watoto wao wapenzi wao na familia zao dhidi ya maambukizi	I cooked food for my family when I was growing up, mainly for mackerel.	kiswahili	swa_spk2
Tebaalonda.	They did not vote.	luganda	lug_spk3
Obugenyi obunaanyuma, olabira ku nnamusa.	Later visits, you see them on the verandah.	luganda	lug_spk1
kwani yeye ni mwalimu katika chuo cha ualimu kilichopo mbagala	All of the contents of this article are included in a chapter of the same name as every other chapter of the Bible.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Ne mu biseera byo eby'omu maaso bw'otyo bw'olibeera.	This is how you will be in the future.	luganda	lug_spk1
viongozi wa nchi za nje walipenda utawala wake	I want her to have her look like she did all the other things that I wanted her to do.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
anaingia kwenye uongozi hakitarajia kuwa kuna siku atakua adui	It's like one of my other great competitors, because it takes me so long to get to my dad.	kiswahili	swa_spk3
Lwaki weetaaga okukimanya?	Why do you need to know?	luganda	lug_spk1
Bw'osukka wano omanya nti sigenda kukusasula ssente zo.	If you go any further, you know I won't refund your money.	luganda	lug_spk5
Omusawo wa wano alabika nga atagenda kutukolako.	The local doctor does not seem to want to help us.	luganda	lug_spk6
Oyo ye muzungu eyasooka okujja mu Buganda.	They were the first white person to come to Buganda.	luganda	lug_spk3
Hii ni fursa nzuri kwetu watanzania kwenda kutembelea sehemu hizi	You can see it from your phone number all the way to your computer name.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Heshima na shukrani zikaenda kwa Pep	Shift keys for Pepsi	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Alikuwa nahodha kamili Julai mwaka elfu mbili na nane akiongoza Ureno	As we grew up, we grew up in the middle of July, and we grew up in the middle of June, and we grew up in the middle of Ureno.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
mzee mkapa alijenga uwanja kwa kushirikiana na serikali ya china	And the monsoon rains as it rains on all of China's mainland.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Kwa kutumia ushahidi kutoka chombo jiwe middens	And I'm talking about the history of chombo midgets.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Naye ddala mu kutya Katonda amagezi mwe gasookera?	But does the fear of God really begin with wisdom?	luganda	lug_spk6
Mwaka elfu moja mia tisa sitini na mbili kutoka kwa waingereza	When I was growing up, I was actually handing out cartoons all the way through the U.S. for free.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Mbega mwekundu wa Iringa na Sanje aliweka mangabey	One millionth of a mile from Erie to Sanje, replete with mangabee.	kiswahili	swa_spk1
Abantu balina okumanya ku bitundu ebikuumirwamu ebibira.	People should be aware of forest reserves.	luganda	lug_spk3
Munaku eyeegulira, yaalya akawera.	The self-made miserable man ate a lot of food.	luganda	lug_spk3
kwa moyo wake wote kuipigania nchi yake ya Tanganyika	I was actually quite surprised when I clicked on this thing in Tanzania.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
samaki aina ya chui wanapatikana katika mto naili pekee	And the same fish were always swimming around in my native habitat for a long time.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Tugenda kuteekawo ekkungngaanyizo lya kalonda yenna akwata ku buwangwa n'ennono za Buganda.	We are going to put up a collection of all the books about Buganda culture and traditions.	luganda	lug_spk3
Abasomesa be bamu ku bantu abasinga okufuna omusaala omutono mu ggwanga.	Teachers are among the lowest-paid people in the country.	luganda	lug_spk6
Mtoto hatakuwa na namna ya kumuacha mama yake mlezi	And this monkey told this story to its mother-in-law, the princess.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Omuzannyo guno abato baguzannya nga bageegeenya okulunda ente.	This game is played by young people preparing to rear cattle.	luganda	lug_spk4
Sso akakanisa katono nnyo kijjukizo.	But the church is too small to be a memorial.	luganda	lug_spk1
Omuntu bwakuyita erinnya oyitaba nti 'Wangi?	When someone calls you by a name, do you respond, 'Wangi?	luganda	lug_spk2
Olume kye ki?	What is an elephant?	luganda	lug_spk3
utajifunza mengi ikiwa ni pamoja na kupanua	I can't even tell you how to use a swimming pool.	kiswahili	swa_spk4
Obujulizi obuliwo bulaga n'abantu abalala babiri nga bakubwa amasasi .	The available evidence shows that two other people were also shot.	luganda	lug_spk5
Mukyala we yagenda okulaba nga otulo tumutute.	His wife went to see if he was asleep.	luganda	lug_spk2
kuanzisha mamlaka ya usimamizi na uendelezaji wa utalii wa fukwe nchini	Counts the number of people in your lifetime on your Twitter feeds across the country.	kiswahili	swa_spk6
Kila nchi iliyopo katika bara la Afrika imebarikiwa kuwa na mbuga nzuri na kubwa	All day long in all of Africa, and you can have lots of wonderful things to do all day long.	kiswahili	swa_spk3
Vijana wanaweza kuwa na wenzi wengi wa mapenzi kuliko kuwa na mwenzi mmoja	If you do not know what you are talking about, you may not be able to read the language you are speaking.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Kaunda alikuwa mtoto wa mwisho katika familia ya watoto wanane	All of the languages spoken in the family of orange trees throughout the year.	kiswahili	swa_spk5
Omukulu w'essomero ayinza kuyimirizibwa mu mbeera ki?	Under what conditions can a headteacher be suspended?	luganda	lug_spk5

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Luganda-Swahili Speaker-Clustered TTS Dataset

Dataset Summary

A cleaned, speaker-labeled text-to-speech (TTS) dataset covering Luganda and Kiswahili, derived from the Luganda-Swahili Speech for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Kaggle dataset. The source data contains recordings from 6 speakers per language, but speaker identity was not labeled in the original release. Speaker labels in this version were recovered via unsupervised audio clustering (6 clusters per language), and the audio was filtered for corrupt files before merging into a single train/validation split.

Languages: Luganda (lg), Kiswahili / Swahili (sw)
Total utterances: 28,349 (after cleaning)
Total duration: ~32.16 hours (13.10h Kiswahili + 19.06h Luganda)
Speakers: 6 per language (12 total), speaker identity inferred via clustering — not ground-truth speaker metadata
License: CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Supported Tasks

Text-to-Speech (TTS): text / english_transcript → audio
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): audio → text
Speaker-conditioned TTS / voice cloning: using the clustered speaker_id field

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each example contains a single audio clip paired with its transcript in the source language, an English translation, a language tag, and a clustered speaker ID.

{
  "audio": {"array": [...], "sampling_rate": 16000, "path": "..."},
  "text": "...",
  "english_transcript": "...",
  "language": "lug",  # or "swa"
  "speaker_id": "lug_spk5"
}

Data Fields

Field	Type	Description
`audio`	`Audio`	The speech recording
`text`	`string`	Transcript in the source language (Luganda or Kiswahili)
`english_transcript`	`string`	English translation of the transcript
`language`	`string`	Source language code (`lug` or `swa`)
`speaker_id`	`string`	Clustered speaker label (e.g. `lug_spk1`–`lug_spk6`, `swa_spk1`–`swa_spk6`); assigned via unsupervised clustering, not original metadata

Data Splits

The dataset was split 90/10 into train/validation, stratified per speaker so every speaker is proportionally represented in both splits (rather than a single global random split, which risked dropping low-count speakers entirely from one side).

Split	Utterances	%
train	25,514	90.0%
validation	2,835	10.0%
Total	28,349	100%

Per-speaker distribution:

Speaker	Train	Validation
lug_spk1	2,172	241
lug_spk2	1,910	212
lug_spk3	3,078	342
lug_spk4	1,867	208
lug_spk5	3,592	399
lug_spk6	2,862	318
swa_spk1	969	108
swa_spk2	1,412	157
swa_spk3	1,785	198
swa_spk4	1,525	169
swa_spk5	2,709	301
swa_spk6	1,633	182

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Raw audio and transcripts were sourced from the Luganda-Swahili Speech for Text-to-Speech Synthesis dataset on Kaggle, released under CC0 1.0 Public Domain.

Speaker Clustering

The original dataset does not label which of the 6 speakers per language produced each clip. Speaker identity was recovered by:

Extracting audio features from each clip.
Clustering clips per language into 6 groups (k=6) to approximate the 6 known speakers.

Resulting cluster sizes:

Luganda (17,201 clips clustered into 6 speakers):

Speaker	Clips
lug_spk5	3,991
lug_spk3	3,420
lug_spk6	3,180
lug_spk1	2,413
lug_spk2	2,122
lug_spk4	2,075

Kiswahili (11,149 clips clustered into 6 speakers):

Speaker	Clips
swa_spk5	3,010
swa_spk3	1,983
swa_spk6	1,816
swa_spk4	1,694
swa_spk2	1,569
swa_spk1	1,077

Note: these speaker labels are cluster assignments, not verified ground-truth speaker identities. They should be treated as a best-effort approximation useful for speaker-conditioned modeling, not as authoritative metadata.

Data Cleaning

Corrupt/empty audio files were filtered out prior to clustering and merging:

Language	Before	After	Removed
Kiswahili	11,149	11,148	1
Luganda	17,201	17,201	0

Audio Statistics

	Kiswahili	Luganda
Average duration	4.23s	3.99s
Median duration	4.14s	3.78s
Min duration	1.05s	1.17s
Max duration	8.73s	9.72s
Total duration	13.10h	19.06h

Licensing Information

This dataset is released under CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication), matching the license of the source Kaggle dataset.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original source:

@misc{lugswa_tts_kaggle,
  title  = {Luganda-Swahili Speech for Text-to-Speech Synthesis},
  author = {Dumlao, Jocelyn},
  year   = {2024},
  url    = {https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jocelyndumlao/luganda-swahili-speech-for-text-to-speechsynthesis/data}
}