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voiceafrica-datasets

Bube(bvb)Audioautomatic-speech-recognition, audio-classificationCentral Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Bube (bvb)
Modality
Audio
Domain
speech (Health, Agric, Education, Social Media)
Size
10K<n<100K n (samples)
Institution
naijavoices
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-nc-sa-4.0

Open with restrictions — attribution required; some commercial or derivative use limited.

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

31 of 46 fields stated

Every column the registry tracks. Values marked derivedwere filled by a rule or read from the source's text rather than stated in its metadata; the rule or the quoted sentence is shown under the value.

Registry columns (22/27)

iso code
bvb
Dataset name
voiceafrica-datasets
Modality
Audio
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/naijavoices/voiceafrica-datasets
NLP Task
automatic-speech-recognition, audio-classification
Domain
speech (Health, Agric, Education, Social Media)
Data Format
parquet
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
10K<n<100K n (samples)
License
cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Open Access
Restricted
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2026
Creator/Author(s)
naijavoices
Funder/Partner
Meta
Dialect Coverage
Code-switchedderivedHugging Face card: "The result is conversational, real-world, culturally-rich data, including the natural fillers, repetitions, and code-mixing that occur in everyday speech."
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
118derivedHugging Face card: "The dataset contains ~125 hours of speech (about 10 hours per language) across 16,383 audio samples from 118 speakers in four countries."
Annotation Type
Not stated
Status
Activederivedupdated or published within 3 years
Has Datasheet
YesderivedHugging Face card: README with a description of 300+ characters
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Data format: parquet

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Restricted
Content Hash
8e1e831d003a502df1f29c8986dd060585a21895derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
2026-08-25derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (3/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Yes: VoiceAfrica is a Lanfrica–Meta collaboration (code-named VoiceAfrica 1) that set out to create authentic, conversational speech and expert-curated transcri…derivedHugging Face card: "VoiceAfrica is a Lanfrica–Meta collaboration (code-named VoiceAfrica 1) that set out to create authentic, conversational speech and expert-curated transcriptions for 11 under-represented African lang…"
Demographic Fields Reported Count
1

Readiness Score Breakdown

3/5
Data Coverage53%
Model Availability96%
Benchmarks0%
Documentation81%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/naijavoices/voiceafrica-datasets
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
8e1e831d003a502df1f29c8986dd060585a21895

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Active

27 Oct 2026

Also Available In

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Open9 Jul 2026
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Data format: parquet

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Data format: parquet

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Restricted27 Oct 2026
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Data format: parquet

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