amharic-asr-merged

A merged Amharic speech-recognition dataset, combining and deduplicating:

• badrex/amharic-speech
• chappM/amharic-bdu-asr
• beimnet777/amharic-asr
• snapwre/amharic-speech

Processing

• Standardized to audio (16kHz mono) and text columns, with a source column tracking origin
• Unicode NFC-normalized transcripts, empty transcripts dropped
• Exact-duplicate transcripts removed
• Re-split into train (90%) / validation (5%) / test (5%), ignoring original source splits

Rows & duration

• Train: 67,221 clips (218.98 hours)
• Validation: 3,735 clips (12.25 hours)
• Test: 3,735 clips (12.19 hours)
• Total: 74,691 clips (243.42 hours)

License

Check the license of each source dataset before redistributing; this card assumes CC-BY-4.0 as the most permissive common denominator among the sources at time of writing — verify this still holds for all four before relying on it.