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DrIAmed/darija-youtube-dataset

Darija YouTube Dataset A dataset of Moroccan Arabic (Darija) speech scraped from YouTube, with transcriptions in Arabic script, Latin script (Arabizi), and English translations. Dataset Description This dataset contains sentence-level audio segments of Darija speech, paired with: Arabic transcription (modern Moroccan Arabic script) Latin transliteration (Arabizi format: 3=ع, 7=ح, 9=ق, etc.) English translation Columns Column Type Description… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/DrIAmed/darija-youtube-dataset.

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Darija YouTube Dataset

A dataset of Moroccan Arabic (Darija) speech scraped from YouTube, with transcriptions in Arabic script, Latin script (Arabizi), and English translations.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains sentence-level audio segments of Darija speech, paired with:

  • —Arabic transcription (modern Moroccan Arabic script)
  • —Latin transliteration (Arabizi format: 3=ع, 7=ح, 9=ق, etc.)
  • —English translation

Columns

ColumnTypeDescription
audioAudioWAV audio clip (16kHz, mono)
darija_LatnstringDarija in Latin/Arabizi script
darija_Arab_newstringDarija in modern Arabic script
englishstringEnglish translation
darija_Arab_oldstringDarija in traditional Arabic script

Example

darija_Latndarija_Arab_newenglish
alslam 3lykm ana smyty 3thmanالسلام عليكم انا سميتي عثمانHello, my name is Othman.
ana mn almghrb. knskn fy mrakshأنا من المغرب. كنسكن في مراكشI'm from Morocco. I live in Marrakech.

How It Was Made

  1. 1.Audio scraped from YouTube using yt-dlp
  2. 2.Split into segments using silence detection
  3. 3.Transcribed and translated using Gemini 2.5 native audio understanding
  4. 4.Transliterated to Arabizi using rule-based mapping

Usage

python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("DrIAmed/darija-youtube-dataset")
print(dataset["train"][0])

License

This dataset is provided for research purposes only.