---
pretty_name: Bobi Wine Luganda Speech
language:
- lg
license: unknown
task_categories:
- text-to-speech
tags:
- luganda
- uganda
- speech
- tts
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: transcription
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 116640417
    num_examples: 250
  download_size: 116308260
  dataset_size: 116640417
---

# Bobi Wine Luganda Speech

This dataset contains short Luganda speech clips segmented from longer recordings, with corresponding transcriptions in Luganda.
It is intended for Text-to-Speech (TTS) research and prototyping.

## Contents
- `wavs/`: 250 WAV clips (`22050 Hz` recommended for TTS pipelines)
- `metadata.csv`: Root-level metadata with two columns per line: `path|text`
  - Example: `wavs/0001.wav|Gyebale ko ssebo…`
- `bobi_interview_clean.wav`: Source interview audio (cleaned)
- `bobi.mp3`: Additional source audio

## Recommended metadata format for TTS
Most TTS pipelines expect a root-level `metadata.csv` with relative paths:

```
path|text
wavs/0001.wav|Gyebale ko ssebo…
wavs/0002.wav|…
```

If you need to regenerate `metadata.csv` from an ID|text file:

```bash
cd /Users/jovan/dev/ai_slop/dataset/bobiwine
awk -F'|' 'NF>=2 { gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $1); print "wavs/" $1 ".wav|" $2 }' chops/metadata.csv > metadata.csv
```

Note: Ensure that transcriptions are Luganda and match the audio content.

## Upload to Hugging Face Hub

```bash
curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash
hf auth login

cd /Users/jovan/dev/ai_slop/dataset/bobiwine
# Ensure large audio files are tracked with LFS via .gitattributes

# Option A: Use the HF CLI upload (simple)
hf upload unreal/bobiwine . --repo-type=dataset

# Option B: Git-based workflow
# git init && git remote add origin https://huggingface.co/datasets/unreal/bobiwine
# git add .
# git commit -m "Add Bobi Wine Luganda speech dataset"
# git push -u origin main
```

## Caveats
- Licensing for the audio should be reviewed and set appropriately.
- Content may contain political speech; review for intended downstream use.

## Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite and credit the dataset author and original sources as appropriate.