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This dataset contains lossless FLAC chunks derived from 30 Nigerian-language, Nigerian English, and Nigerian Pidgin recordings. Access requests require manual approval by the repository owner.

Contents

  • Chunks: 2,245
  • Chunk audio duration: 3.656 hours
  • Source transcript rows represented: 4,225
  • Non-speech annotations: 553 (stored separately)
  • Recordings: 30
  • Audio: source-rate, source-channel-count, PCM-16 FLAC
  • Timestamp source: transcript_sbpn
  • Quality status: unreviewed

Chunking policy

Consecutive transcript rows are merged only when they have the same recording-local speaker label, contain no intervening non-speech annotation, have a gap of at most 2.0 seconds, and produce a chunk no longer than 40.0 seconds. A single source row longer than the maximum is retained unsplit because no internal row-level cutting point exists.

Non-speech-only rows such as <music> and <laugh> are not converted into standalone zero-length audio. They are preserved in manifests/non_speech_events.csv and act as hard merge boundaries.

Important limitations

  • Speaker labels are anonymous and local to each recording. Speaker 1 does not identify the same person in different recordings.
  • The SBPN timestamps were produced by full-audio forced alignment and can contain severe alignment drift. These chunks are intended for manual review and further automated QA, not direct TTS training.
  • Music, singing, overlapping speech, noise, and transcript errors have not been filtered out.
  • The source recordings were compressed media; FLAC avoids another lossy generation but cannot restore information removed by the source codec.
  • No license is asserted here. Users must independently confirm rights, consent, and permitted uses before training or redistribution.

Fields

The Dataset Viewer reads train/metadata.jsonl. Important fields include file_name, text, speaker_local, recording_id, exact start/end times, source-row indices, gap statistics, and the over_40s_unsplittable flag.

manifests/chunks.jsonl contains the same records in JSONL form, while manifests/source_summary.csv and manifests/non_speech_events.csv provide recording-level and event-level audit information.

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