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Wolof TTS Dataset (AI4D)

Wolof(wol)SpeechGender dataWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Wolof (wol)
Modality
Speech
Domain
General/News
Size
40000
Institution
Diop, Thierno Ibrahima; Aw, Demba; Jaane, Ami; Badiane, Mamadou (Baamtu Datamation)
Last Updated
1 Jul 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

34 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (25/27)

iso code
wol
Dataset name
Wolof TTS Dataset (AI4D)
Modality
Speech
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/galsenai/wolof_tts
NLP Task
TTS
Domain
General/News
Data Format
parquet
Size Metric
Sentences
Size Value
40000
License
CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2021
Creator/Author(s)
Diop, Thierno Ibrahima; Aw, Demba; Jaane, Ami; Badiane, Mamadou (Baamtu Datamation)
Funder/Partner
AI4D African Language Program
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Yes
Speaker Count
2
Annotation Type
2026-06-18
Status
Wolof TTS dataset: 20,000+ sentences recorded by each of 2 native speakers (male + female). Total ~40K recordings. Text from news, Wikipedia, curated text. Also…
Has Datasheet
YesderivedHugging Face card: README with a description of 300+ characters
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Emmanuel
Date Indexed
2026-07-01
Notes / Flags
Data format: parquet

Quality (DQI) (7/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
2991f33e73cd81095fb8bf984d6184751a9c99d2derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-07-01
Last Updated Date
2024-08-26derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
It was cleaned and structured by Derguene Mbaye, then uploaded and documented by Alwaly Ndiaye.derivedHugging Face card: "It was cleaned and structured by Derguene Mbaye, then uploaded and documented by Alwaly Ndiaye."
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (2/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Senegal
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
1

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation79%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/galsenai/wolof_tts
Fetch Timestamp
1 Jul 2026
Content Hash
2991f33e73cd81095fb8bf984d6184751a9c99d2

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

1 Jul 2026

Source status: Wolof TTS dataset: 20,000+ sentences recorded by each of 2 native speakers (male + female). Total ~40K recordings. Text from news, Wikipedia, curated text. Also hosted on Zenodo (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4498861). Published in arXiv:2104.02516. Part of AI4D African Language Programme.

1 Jul 2026

Other Copies

The same resource, also published at these locations. It is counted once.

dataset

wolof_tts

Data format: parquet

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HUHugging Face
Open27 Oct 2026

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