evie-8/kikuyu-data

Kikuyu Speech Dataset

This dataset contains Kikuyu speech audio with transcriptions, sourced and adapted from the ANV Data KE dataset.
It includes both scripted and unscripted recordings, across different domains.

We provide two configurations for different use cases.

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📂 Dataset Structure

Configurations

• all: Full dataset (all durations, unscripted only).
• new_duration_30s: Audio samples ≤ 30 seconds (scripted + unscripted).

Features

Each entry has the following fields:

• id: string
• audio: Audio()
• audio_language: string
• text: string (transcription if available)
• type: string (scripted or unscripted)
• prompt: string
• duration: float64 (in seconds)
• speaker_id: string

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📊 Dataset Statistics

Unscripted only (all durations, all)

Split	Hours	#Examples
train	322.2h	24,840
dev	35.4h	2,535
dev_test	17.2h	1,413

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Scripted + Unscripted (≤30s, new_duration_30s)

Metric	train	dev	dev_test	Total
Total Hours	185.8h	20.0h	10.9h	216.7h
Scripted Hours	153.6h	16.6h	8.2h	178.4h
Unscripted Hours	32.2h	3.3h	2.6h	38.1h
#Examples	116,180	13,825	6,910	136,915

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🛠️ Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load full unscripted dataset
ds = load_dataset("evie-8/kikuyu-data", "all")

# Load 30s filtered dataset (scripted + unscripted)
ds_30s = load_dataset("evie-8/kikuyu-data", "new_duration_30s")

print(ds_30s["train"][0])