Adamawa Fulfulde-TTS-Dataset

This dataset comprises 1,303 high-quality audio recordings of read speech produced by a single Adamawa Fulfulde speaker over several months. Adamawa Fulfulde (ISO 639-3: fub), also known as Fula Adamawa, is a language of the Niger-Congo family spoken in the Adamawa region of Cameroon and in adjacent areas of Chad and Nigeria. It is a low-resource language with limited existing digital speech resources, making this dataset a significant contribution to natural language processing efforts for the language. Audio files are provided in MP3 format (176 MB), totalling 3 hours, 31 minutes and 18.92 seconds of speech. The dataset includes an audio/sentence mapping file in TSV format (Mapping_MP3.tsv) containing 1,302 aligned audio/sentence pairs. Transcriptions follow the standard Fulfulde Latin-based orthography, which includes special characters such as ɓ, ɗ, ƴ, ŋ and ɲ, with vowel length marked by doubling (aa, oo, uu, etc.). Tones are not marked. The recordings cover a broad range of everyday topics and narrative genres — storytelling, dialogue, description and conversational interaction — providing good prosodic and lexical diversity for training and evaluating TTS and ASR models. The dataset is intended for research and scientific use in speech technology for Adamawa Fulfulde.