datasets
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audios-lingala-annotatees
Annotated Lingala Dataset – Full Version
Description
This dataset gathers annotated Lingala audio data, intended for open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) research and for fine-tuning Whisper-type models.
It includes:
the original audio files (viewable directly in the Hugging Face viewer)
text transcriptions
Mel spectrograms
tokenized labels
Overall statistics
Metric
Value
Total volume
5 h 0 min 18 s
Number of audio segments… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Congo-digital-service/audios-lingala-annotatees.Lingala_100hrs
Lingala 100hrs
110.7 hours (23,539 rows) of Lingala speech with transcriptions, aggregated
from three publicly available CC-BY-4.0 corpora for ASR research.
Composition
Counts from a full-pass audit on 2026-07-09:
Source
Upstream location
Rows
Splits
AfriVoice (Lingala)
https://huggingface.co/datasets/DigitalUmuganda/AfriVoice
17,544
train (16,144), validation (915), test (485)
LRSC (Lingala Read Speech Corpus)… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/KasuleTrevor/Lingala_100hrs.audios-lingala-annotatees-v2
Annotated Lingala Audio — canonical corpus
Annotated Lingala speech for open automatic speech recognition research and for
fine-tuning speech models.
This release is a full reconstruction of the corpus from its source
recordings and annotations. It supersedes
Congo-digital-service/audios-lingala-annotatees,
which is deprecated — see Relationship to the previous release below.
What this dataset contains
Each row is one annotated speech segment, carrying the audio… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Congo-digital-service/audios-lingala-annotatees-v2.lingala_real_eval_benchmark_croped
Lingala Real Eval Benchmark Cropped
Small cropped real-world Lingala audio benchmark for testing BLI ASR 0.
The dataset contains short audio clips cropped from longer real-world files, covering different domains such as news, catechesis, comedy, cartoon and interview speech.
This dataset is intended for quick qualitative ASR testing and human review. It is not a training dataset.
Lingala-Speech-Dataset
Lingala Dataset Metadata
Field
Value
📜 License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
🎯 Task Categories
Automatic Speech Recognition
🌍 Language
Lingala (ln)
🏷️ Tags
Audio, Speech, Speech Recognition, ML, Machine, Machine Learning, Lingala
📦 Size Category
n < 1K