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voiceafrica-datasets

Urhobo(urh)Audioautomatic-speech-recognition, audio-classificationWest Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Urhobo (urh)

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

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Registry columns (22/27)

iso code: urh
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

4/5

Data Coverage94%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks0%

Documentation76%

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

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