BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single speaker recordings per language, enabling the development of high-quality text-to-speech models. The ten languages represented are: Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Chichewa, Ewe, Hausa, Kikuyu, Lingala, Luganda, Luo, and Yoruba. This corpus is a derivative work of Bible recordings made and released by the Open.Bible project from Biblica. We have aligned, cleaned, and filtered the original recordings, and additionally hand-checked a subset of the alignments for each language. We present results for text-to-speech models with Coqui TTS. The data is released under a commercial-friendly CC-BY-SA license.
@article{arxiv.2207.03546,
title = {BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus},
author = {Josh Meyer and David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Edresson Casanova and Alp Öktem and Daniel Whitenack Julian Weber and Salomon Kabongo and Elizabeth Salesky and Iroro Orife and Colin Leong and Perez Ogayo and Chris Emezue and Jonathan Mukiibi and Salomey Osei and Apelete Agbolo and Victor Akinode and Bernard Opoku and Samuel Olanrewaju and Jesujoba Alabi and Shamsuddeen Muhammad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03546},
year = {2022}
}