textHausaZamfaraLow-resource languageSpeech datasetASRTTSAudio transcriptionAfrican languagesOral historyCultural preservation

General Hausa Village Childhood Oral History - 37min Audio-Aligned EN-HA + 25-Term Zamfara Dialect & Royal Titles Lexicon

2026 · Updated Nov 1, 2026

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License: DataBazaar Open Use
Source / creator: UMAR FAROUK
Collection method: Recorded in-person in a quiet room using a USB condenser microphone. The audio was then manually transcribed, translated into English, and time-aligned by native speakers.
Coverage / snapshot: 2026
Data last updated: 2026
Update schedule: Fixed snapshot. No planned updates; this is a one-time historical recording

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The dataset is a single 37-minute conversational recording. It contains natural background room tone and overlapping speech typical of spontaneous dialogue. The vocabulary is heavily focused on childhood memories, traditional games, and palace titles from the Zamfara region, rather than modern technical or scientific terms.

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A 37-minute natural, unscripted oral history in General Hausa (Zamfara dialect) with time-aligned transcriptions and English translations. This dataset includes a rare 25-term cultural lexicon (palace titles, traditional games). Ethically sourced with explicit speaker consent, it is ideal for training ASR, TTS, and translation models on low-resource languages.

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