This dataset comprises audio recordings of Hausa speech aligned with textual transcriptions. The dataset is structured into 19 folders, each containing audio files and a corresponding audio-text mapping file.
The audio clips are short, typically ranging from 1 to 23 seconds, and are suitable for training and evaluating Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. The dataset follows a structured format where each audio file is paired with its corresponding transcription in a tab-separated mapping file.
The textual content used in this dataset originates from a variety of written sources in Hausa, including encyclopaedic and informational texts. These texts were segmented into short utterances suitable for read speech and TTS modelling.