A small sample of studio-recorded Tiv speech with matching Tiv text and English translations, from the Animals and Livestock category of the SLANGUAGE (SAVA Languages) corpus, produced by STECH Global Limited.

This repository is a sample of a larger closed dataset. The full corpus (text and audio, all categories) is available under commercial licence only.


Clips	281
Total audio	16.3 minutes (976 s)
Clip length	1.44 s – 8.45 s (median 3.28 s)
Speakers	1 male speaker (anonymised ID: `actor`)
Category	Animals and Livestock
Sentence IDs	ANI_6051 – ANI_6331
Languages	Tiv (`tiv`), English (`en`)

Each clip is one sentence read aloud in Tiv, paired with its Tiv transcription and English translation.

Audio format

WAV, 16-bit PCM, mono, 16 kHz
Studio-recorded
One sentence per file

Text

The tiv column is the project's Tiv transcription, with tonal marking, as held in the source corpus. The only changes are whitespace normalisation and Unicode NFC normalisation.

Data fields

Column	Description
`audio`	The audio clip (loaded from `file_name`)
`sentence_id`	Sentence ID in the SLANGUAGE corpus
`english`	English sentence
`tiv`	Tiv sentence
`category`	Domain category
`speaker_id`	Anonymised speaker ID
`speaker_sex`	Speaker sex
`duration_sec`	Clip length in seconds
`sample_rate`	Sample rate in Hz

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("SLANGUAGE/SLANGUAGE_TIV_ANI_AUDIO", split="train")
print(ds[0]["tiv"], "|", ds[0]["english"])

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Consent

The speaker gave signed consent and a release for the recordings. Speaker identity is withheld; only an anonymised ID is published.

Licence

CC BY-NC 4.0. Non-commercial use only, with attribution. Commercial use of this sample or the full corpus requires a separate licence from STECH Global Limited.

Citation

@dataset{slanguage_tiv_ani_audio,
  title  = {SLANGUAGE Tiv–English Audio Sample: Animals and Livestock},
  author = {STECH Global Limited},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/SLANGUAGE/SLANGUAGE_TIV_ANI_AUDIO}
}

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