A Somali-language speech dataset derived from YouTube audio, intended for training and evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech-to-text (STT) models. Transcriptions were generated synthetically (silver-standard) via ASR bootstrapping.
Split
Samples
train
~4,393
validation
200
test
100
Total
~4,693
Language: Somali (so)
Audio format: WAV, 16 kHz, mono, 16-bit PCM