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title: "Dholuo Speech Dataset – Kenyan ANV ASR Data (Free) | Way With Words"
description: "Dholuo speech from the Kenyan African Next Voices collection—scripted and unscripted domains on Hugging Face."
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Africa Next Voices

# Dholuo speech dataset

African Next Voices: Data collection in Kenya (KenCorpus Consortium, Gates Foundation). Scripted and unscripted speech across multiple domains, collected through ethical, community-led processes. CC BY 4.0. See the Hugging Face organization for the latest splits and attribution. This configuration covers Dholuo (Nyandwat, Milambo dialects). Use the dataset card for transcription status, splits, and ethical use terms.

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

723

Speakers

0

Access

Hugging Face

Audio format

WAV (per dataset card)

Accents

Kenyan Dholuo

[Get dataset on Hugging Face →](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anv-ke/Dholuo)

## Dataset details

Hours available

723

Age range

18 - 60+

Download size

Hugging Face

Number of speakers

0

Audio format

WAV (per dataset card)

Accents

Kenyan Dholuo

## Additional information

### African Next Voices — Kenya

This listing points to African Next Voices in Kenya (KenCorpus Consortium, Gates Foundation): scripted and unscripted speech collected through community-led processes, with per-language dataset repos under the [Anv-ke](https://huggingface.co/Anv-ke) organization on Hugging Face. The public cards describe domains, splits, transcription coverage, and ethical use; treat releases as work in progress and follow CC BY 4.0 attribution on the dataset card.

 

## More languages & resources

Open the Hugging Face dataset card for this language for loading instructions, columns, and the latest statistics. The [Anv-ke](https://huggingface.co/Anv-ke) organization lists sibling repos (Dholuo, Kikuyu, Somali, Kalenjin, Maasai). Use only as permitted on the card (research and ASR-related development; no surveillance or unethical profiling).

[Open on Hugging Face →](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anv-ke/Dholuo) [Back to all datasets](/datasets)

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