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Bateesa/tobydata-tts-dataset

Tobydata Tts Dataset Dataset Description Luganda TTS dataset (Toby-data) collected by TericLab. Contains read speech in Luganda, primarily on tailoring, fashion, and vocational training topics. Recorded via mobile application. Languages Language: Luganda (lg) BCP-47: lg Source tag tobydata — value of the source column in every row. Dataset Structure Column Type Description audio Audio Raw WAV audio at… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Bateesa/tobydata-tts-dataset.

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Tobydata Tts Dataset

Dataset Description

Luganda TTS dataset (Toby-data) collected by TericLab. Contains read speech in Luganda, primarily on tailoring, fashion, and vocational training topics. Recorded via mobile application.

Languages

—Language: Luganda (lg)
—BCP-47: lg

Source tag

tobydata — value of the source column in every row.

Dataset Structure

Column	Type	Description
`audio`	Audio	Raw WAV audio at original recording frequency
`text`	string	Transcription of the spoken content
`frequency`	int	Sample rate in Hz of the audio
`source`	string	Origin label (`tobydata`)

Splits

Split	Samples
train	2682

Related Work

Prepared in the context of East African speech technology research. See also the Sunbird AI SALT dataset — a multi-language parallel corpus covering Luganda, Acholi, Swahili, Runyankole, Lugbara, and Ateso, used as a benchmark for TTS/ASR in East Africa.

License

CC BY 4.0

Citation

bibtex

@dataset{tobydata_tts,
  author    = {Bateesa},
  title     = {Tobydata Tts Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Bateesa/tobydata-tts-dataset}
}