XedriX/malagasy-nwt-bible
Malagasy NWT Dataset Dataset from the Malagasy New World Translation Bible (JW.org 2021). Format audio — 16 kHz mono WAV text — clean Malagasy transcript, digits converted to Malagasy words Speaker Information This dataset contains multiple speakers — several readers who each narrate different books or chapters of the Bible. Automatic speaker diarization and clustering was attempted using pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1, but reliable speaker… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/XedriX/malagasy-nwt-bible.
Malagasy NWT Dataset
Dataset from the Malagasy New World Translation Bible (JW.org 2021).
Format
audio— 16 kHz mono WAVtext— clean Malagasy transcript, digits converted to Malagasy words
Speaker Information
This dataset contains multiple speakers — several readers who each narrate different books or chapters of the Bible. Automatic speaker diarization and clustering was attempted using pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1, but reliable speaker identity assignment was not achievable due to:
- All readers using the same formal liturgical reading style
- Similar prosody, pace, and acoustic characteristics across readers
- Short segment lengths (verse-level) providing limited acoustic context
- Occasional within-segment speaker switches (quoted speech read by a different voice)
No speaker ID column is provided in this dataset.
Stats
- Clips: ~21,900
- Total duration: ~60 hours
- Train split: ~20,800 clips (95%)
- Test split: ~1,100 clips (5%)
- Language: Malagasy (mg)
- Sample rate: 16,000 Hz mono
- Segmentation: verse-level, aligned via JW.org API timestamps
- Transcript: clean text, digits converted to Malagasy words
- Source: JW.org (NWT 2021)
Columns
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("XedriX/malagasy-nwt-bible")
Limitations
- No speaker labels — automatic clustering was attempted but not reliable enough to include
- Multi-speaker segments — some segments contain more than one voice (quoted speech read by a different reader)