NaijaVoices is a 1,838-hour, 5,455-speaker speech-text corpus for Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba whose use in fine-tuning cuts Word Error Rates by 42-76% relative to unadapted baselines.
It features a wide range of speech patterns influenced by age, education levels, accents, and speaking styles – from broken to formal speech, ethnic and dialectal influences
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The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages
NaijaVoices is a 1,838-hour, 5,455-speaker speech-text corpus for Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba whose use in fine-tuning cuts Word Error Rates by 42-76% relative to unadapted baselines.