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SomNLP-STT-Corpus

goobolabs/somnlp-stt-corpus

Transcribed Somali speech with word-level alignment, sourced from radio and read passages, for ASR training.

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Modality

Speech

Size

320 hours · 48 GB

License

CC-BY-4.0

Language

Somali (af)

Format

MP3 + Parquet

Version

v1.2

Tasks

ASR, Speaker ID, VAD

Domains

Radio · Read speech · Interviews

Splits

SplitRowsSize
train12,800 clips43.1 GB
dev640 clips2.4 GB
test640 clips2.5 GB

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("goobolabs/somnlp-stt-corpus", "clean")
sample = ds["train"][0]
print(sample)

Cite

@dataset{somnlp_stt_2026,
  title  = {SomNLP-STT-Corpus: Somali Speech Dataset},
  author = {Goobo Labs},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/goobolabs/somnlp-stt-corpus}
}