RobotsMali/afvoices

📘 African Next Voices – Bambara (AfVoices) The AfVoices dataset is the largest open corpus of spontaneous Bambara speech at its release in late 2025. It contains 423 hours of segmented audio and 612 hours of original raw recordings collected across southern Mali. Speech was recorded in natural, conversational settings and annotated using a semi-automated transcription pipeline combining ASR pre-labels and human corrections. We release all the data processing code on GitHub.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RobotsMali/afvoices.