BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus

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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.