ghanaopenai/new-twi-tts-aligned

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Twi TTS Dataset

A speech dataset of Twi (Akan) extracted from Ghanaian news media broadcasts, designed for training and fine-tuning Text-To-Speech (TTS) models.

📂 Dataset Structure

📊 Statistics

🚀 Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("ghananlpcommunity/new-twi-tts-aligned")
train = dataset["train"]

example = train[0]
print("Transcription:", example["text"])
print("Duration (s):", example["duration"])
print("Audio array shape:", example["audio"]["array"].shape)
print("Sample rate:", example["audio"]["sampling_rate"])

🎯 Intended Use Cases

• —Building TTS models from scratch or finetuning for Twi (Akan)
• —Linguistic research on Twi phonology and prosody
• —Low-resource African language ASR benchmarking

📜 Citation

@dataset{twi_tts,
  author    = {Owusu, Mich-Seth},
  title     = {Twi TTS Dataset},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ghananlpcommunity/new-twi-tts-aligned}
}

🙏 Acknowledgments

Created by Mich-Seth Owusu for the Ghana NLP Community.