README.md

metadata

configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
  - audio
  - webdataset
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: audio
      dtype: audio
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: text
      dtype: string
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    - name: train
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      num_examples: 551
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  dataset_size: 8607811116

Moroccan Darija Wiki Audio Dataset

Overview

The Moroccan Darija Wiki Audio Dataset consists of 551 parallel text and speech samples of Moroccan Darija sourced from Wikipedia Darija . This dataset is designed to support speech recognition, language modeling, and various NLP tasks for Moroccan Darija.

Dataset Source

The data was scraped from Wikipedia (ary) using the WikiScraper tool.

Data Preprocessing

To ensure data quality, we applied standard preprocessing techniques to clean the HTML content and extract useful audio and transcription data.

Dataset Structure

The dataset consists of two columns:

• audio:Speech recordings for Darija wiki posts
• title: The title of the Wikipedia article.
• text: The textual content of the Wikipedia article.

Applications

This dataset can be used for:

• Speech-to-text models for Moroccan Darija.
• NLP applications, such as machine translation and text-to-speech synthesis.
• Linguistic studies on Moroccan Darija.
• Automatic pronunciation analysis and phonetic research.

License

This dataset is released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License.

Acknowledgment

We acknowledge Wikipedia Darija contributors and AtlasIA for their contributions to the Moroccan Darija Wiki Audio Dataset.