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SilencioNetwork/swahili-speech

Name: swahili-speech
Creator: SilencioNetwork
License: cc-by-nc-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:automatic-speech-recognition, task_categories:text-to-speech, annotations_creators:crowdsourced, language_creators:crowdsourced, multilinguality:monolingual, source_datasets:original, language:sw, language:swh, license:cc-by-nc-4.0, size_categories:n<1K, format:parquet, modality:audio, modality:text, library:datasets, library:dask

Kenyan Swahili Spontaneous Speech — Silencio Kenyan Swahili. Spontaneous speech with human-validated transcription and word-level alignment. 103 clips from 103 distinct speakers — one clip each. 99 of the 103 give Kenya as their country of origin: 66 Nairobi (Sheng-influenced), 26 Mombasa coastal, 11 diaspora and other varieties. This is not a pan-Swahili sample — Tanzania, Uganda and the DRC are effectively absent. Hours 1.37 Clips 103 Speakers 103 Countries… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/SilencioNetwork/swahili-speech.

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Author / organization	SilencioNetwork
License (as declared)	cc-by-nc-4.0
Downloads	162 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	10 August 2026
Last updated at source	22 September 2026

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