Yoruba-TTS-Dataset

This dataset comprises audio recordings of Yoruba speech aligned with textual transcriptions. The dataset is structured into 17 folders, each containing audio files and a corresponding audio-text mapping file. The audio clips are short, typically ranging from 3 to 27 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 and spoken sources in Yoruba, including narrative texts, conversational exchanges, opinion and commentary content, and everyday speech samples. These texts were segmented into short utterances suitable for read speech and TTS modelling.