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Tasks:
Text-to-Speech
Modalities:
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Languages:
Ganda
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Tags:
luganda
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speech
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metadata
pretty_name: Bobi Wine Luganda Speech
language:
  - lg
license: unknown
task_categories:
  - text-to-speech
tags:
  - luganda
  - uganda
  - speech
  - tts
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: audio
      dtype: audio
    - name: transcription
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 116640417
      num_examples: 250
  download_size: 116308260
  dataset_size: 116640417

Bobi Wine Luganda Speech

This dataset contains short Luganda speech clips segmented from longer recordings, with corresponding transcriptions in Luganda. It is intended for Text-to-Speech (TTS) research and prototyping.

Contents

  • wavs/: 250 WAV clips (22050 Hz recommended for TTS pipelines)
  • metadata.csv: Root-level metadata with two columns per line: path|text
    • Example: wavs/0001.wav|Gyebale ko ssebo…
  • bobi_interview_clean.wav: Source interview audio (cleaned)
  • bobi.mp3: Additional source audio

Recommended metadata format for TTS

Most TTS pipelines expect a root-level metadata.csv with relative paths:

path|text
wavs/0001.wav|Gyebale ko ssebo…
wavs/0002.wav|…

If you need to regenerate metadata.csv from an ID|text file:

cd /Users/jovan/dev/ai_slop/dataset/bobiwine
awk -F'|' 'NF>=2 { gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $1); print "wavs/" $1 ".wav|" $2 }' chops/metadata.csv > metadata.csv

Note: Ensure that transcriptions are Luganda and match the audio content.

Upload to Hugging Face Hub 

curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash
hf auth login

cd /Users/jovan/dev/ai_slop/dataset/bobiwine
# Ensure large audio files are tracked with LFS via .gitattributes

# Option A: Use the HF CLI upload (simple)
hf upload unreal/bobiwine . --repo-type=dataset

# Option B: Git-based workflow
# git init && git remote add origin https://huggingface.co/datasets/unreal/bobiwine
# git add .
# git commit -m "Add Bobi Wine Luganda speech dataset"
# git push -u origin main

Caveats

  • Licensing for the audio should be reviewed and set appropriately.
  • Content may contain political speech; review for intended downstream use.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite and credit the dataset author and original sources as appropriate.