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title: "Igbo Speech Dataset – African Voices ASR Data (Free) | Way With Words"
description: "Igbo speech with transcriptions from the African Voices multilingual dataset. Download and versioning via africanvoices.io."
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Africa Next Voices

# Igbo speech dataset

Part of the African Voices multilingual speech initiative (Nigerian languages). Audio with matching transcriptions is distributed through the African Voices download hub under that project's terms and release schedule. Way With Words contributed to this strand of ANV alongside other partners. This entry points to the Igbo configuration on the African Voices download hub. The public site advertises about 1900 hours of audio across Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, and Yorùbá; the hours figure here scales that total by this language’s share of published Hugging Face export rows (\`9jalingo-\*\` splits). Splits and attribution evolve—confirm on the hub before benchmarking.

Looking for more options? Browse the [full African speech datasets catalog](/datasets) or see our [community-centric data licensing framework](/esethu).

## Key details

Hours available

383

Speakers

0

Access

Varies by release

Audio format

WAV (per release)

Accents

Nigerian Igbo

[African Voices download →](https://africanvoices.io/download)

## Dataset details

Hours available

383

Age range

Varies

Download size

Varies by release

Number of speakers

0

Audio format

WAV (per release)

Accents

Nigerian Igbo

## Additional information

### African Voices (ANV)

This language configuration is part of the African Voices multilingual speech initiative, with downloads and documentation hosted on [africanvoices.io](https://africanvoices.io/download). Releases are under active development; always use the latest version and follow the hub's citation and licensing terms for attribution and benchmarking.

 

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