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Kppwdfgu1/kin-s-5

Kinyarwanda Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset Dataset Description This dataset contains 500 hours of transcribed Kinyarwanda speech data covering Health, Government, Finance, Education, and Agriculture domains, converted from the Kaggle Kinyarwanda ASR Track A competition. Dataset Details Language: Kinyarwanda (rw) Task: Automatic Speech Recognition Size: ~500 hours of transcribed speech Domains: Health, Government, Financial Services, Education… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kppwdfgu1/kin-s-5.

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Kinyarwanda Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains 500 hours of transcribed Kinyarwanda speech data covering Health, Government, Finance, Education, and Agriculture domains, converted from the Kaggle Kinyarwanda ASR Track A competition.

Dataset Details

—Language: Kinyarwanda (rw)
—Task: Automatic Speech Recognition
—Size: ~500 hours of transcribed speech
—Domains: Health, Government, Financial Services, Education, Agriculture
—Format: Audio files with corresponding transcriptions
—Source: Created by Digital Umuganda with Gates Foundation funding

Dataset Structure

python

# example usage
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("badrex/kinyarwanda-speech-500h")

Use Cases

—training ASR models for Kinyarwanda
—fine-tuning existing speech recognition models (e.g., Whisper)
—research in low-resource speech recognition
—building voice applications for Kinyarwanda speakers

License

The dataset is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license.

Citation

bibtex

@misc{kinyarwanda_asr_track_a,
  title={Kinyarwanda Automatic Speech Recognition Track A},
  author={Digital Umuganda},
  year={2025},
  url={https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kinyarwanda-automatic-speech-recognition-track-a}
}