NaijaVoices Dataset
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NaijaVoices is a large-scale speech dataset of about 1,800 hours from over 5,000 speakers with expert-curated transcripts in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, roughly 600 hours per language. It is designed for building ASR and speech AI for Nigerian languages and improves Whisper and MMS fine-tuning performance. It is available on HuggingFace behind a free registration and powers models like AfriHuBERT and SBPN.
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- AI Resources
- Pricing
- Free for non-commercial research (registration required)
- Country
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Last verified
- 10 Jul 2026
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- 7 Jul 2026 · live
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yoruba
hausa
igbo
nigerian-languages
speech-dataset