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Kinyarwanda Spoken Words Dataset This dataset contains 102 short audio samples of spoken Kinyarwanda words, each labeled with its corresponding transcription. It is designed for training, evaluating, and experimenting with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models in low-resource settings. Structure audio/: Contains 102 .wav files (mono, 16kHz) transcripts.txt: Tab-separated transcription file (e.g., 001.wav\tmuraho) manifest.jsonl: JSONL file with audio paths… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/benax-rw/KinyaWhisperDataset.

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Kinyarwanda Spoken Words Dataset

This dataset contains 102 short audio samples of spoken Kinyarwanda words, each labeled with its corresponding transcription. It is designed for training, evaluating, and experimenting with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models in low-resource settings.

Structure

  • —audio/: Contains 102 .wav files (mono, 16kHz)
  • —transcripts.txt: Tab-separated transcription file (e.g., 001.wav\tmuraho)
  • —manifest.jsonl: JSONL file with audio paths and text labels (compatible with 🤗 Datasets and Whisper training scripts)

Example

json
{"audio_filepath": "audio/001.wav", "text": "muraho"}

Usage

python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("benax-rw/my_kinyarwanda_dataset", split="train")
example = ds[0]
print(example["audio"]["array"], example["text"])

License

This dataset is published for educational and research purposes.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

Benax Labs, KinyaWhisper Dataset for Fine-tuning Whisper on Kinyarwanda (2025)