README.md

---
language:
- ar
- zgh
- shi
task_categories:
- translation
pretty_name: Tamazight-Arabic Speech Translation Dataset
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
tags:
- speech
- tamazight
- arabic
- speech-to-text
- low-resource
- north-africa
---

# Tamazight-Arabic Speech Recognition Dataset

This is the Tamazight-NLP organization-hosted version of the [Tamazight-Arabic Speech Recognition Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/SoufianeDahimi/Tamazight-ASR-Dataset-v2). This dataset contains ~15.5 hours of Tamazight (Tachelhit dialect) speech paired with Arabic transcriptions, designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech-to-text translation tasks.

## Dataset Details

- **Total Examples:** 20,344 audio segments
- **Training Set:** 18,309 examples (~8.9GB)
- **Test Set:** 2,035 examples (~992MB)
- **Total Duration:** ~15.5 hours
- **Audio Format:** WAV
- **Text Format:** Arabic script

## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("Tamazight-NLP/Tamazight-Speech-to-Arabic-Text")
for example in dataset["train"]:
    audio, text = example["audio"], example["text"]
```

## Fields

- `audio`: Path, waveform, and sampling rate
- `text`: Arabic transcription
- `metadata`: Duration, timestamps, language, source

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{tamazight_asr_2024,
  author       = {Contributors},
  title        = {Tamazight-Arabic Speech Recognition Dataset},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/Tamazight-NLP/Tamazight-Speech-to-Arabic-Text}}
}
```

### Acknowledgments

This dataset was initially created by [Soufiane Dahimi](https://huggingface.co/SoufianeDahimi)