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Kencorpus/KenSpeech

Name: KenSpeech
Creator: Kencorpus
License: cc-by-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:automatic-speech-recognition, language:sw, license:cc-by-4.0, size_categories:1K<n<10K, format:parquet, format:optimized-parquet, modality:audio, modality:text, library:datasets, library:dask, library:polars, library:mlcroissant, arxiv:2208.12081, region:us, swahili

KenSpeech: A Swahili Speech Dataset for ASR Dataset Description KenSpeech is a comprehensive Swahili speech dataset containing both read and spontaneous speech recordings from native Swahili speakers in Kenya. This dataset is designed for training and evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech-to-text (STT) systems for Swahili. Dataset Statistics Metric Value Total Duration 27 hours 31 minutes 50 seconds Read Speech… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kencorpus/KenSpeech.

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Author / organization	Kencorpus
License (as declared)	cc-by-4.0
Downloads	339 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	9 February 2026
Last updated at source	12 February 2026

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