ghananlpcommunity/ghana-female-twi-speech-asr-8word-splits

--- language: - twi license: cc-by-4.0 task_categories: - automatic-speech-recognition - text-to-speech multilinguality: - monolingual size_categories: - 1K<n<10K tags: - speech - twi - ghana - african-languages - low-resource - 8gram-splits - ctc-aligned - vad-trimmed pretty_name: Twi 8-Word Speech Segments --- # Twi 8-Word Speech Segments 51139 speech-text pairs split from 30-min recordings. ## Processing pipeline 1. Source audio from `ghananlpcommunity/ghana-female-twi-tts-full-length` 2. Full-file CTC forced alignment (MMS-300M) for word-level timestamps 3. Words grouped into 8-word (8-gram) segments 4. Leading/trailing silence trimmed with VAD (-40 dBFS threshold) 5. Filtered: min 1.0s, max 15.0s 6. Original sample rate preserved (24kHz) ## Usage ```python from datasets import load_dataset ds = load_dataset("ghananlpcommunity/ghana-female-twi-8sec-splits", split="train") ```