We're releasing the first batch of Dataset.ET open speech data for Amharic.

22.7 hours. 7,405 recordings. 320 speakers. Free, CC BY 4.0, on Hugging Face.

Amharic has close to no open speech data. That's the gap we're trying to close, and this is the first step rather than the finished thing.

Some honesty about what this is: it's a first batch. The audio isn't preprocessed yet. We're not going to tell you it's the best quality out there. We don't think it is. What we want is for people to actually use it and tell us where it falls short.

The next release will be different: properly preprocessed audio, a real data pipeline with testing and validation built in. This exists because 320 people in Ethiopia gave their voices to it, and because contributors reviewed each other's recordings. Thank you to all of them.

If you're working on Ethiopian languages, low-resource ASR, or you just want to talk about the data, DM us. We'd genuinely like to hear from you.

🔗 https://huggingface.co/datasets/snapwre/amharic-speech

New Blog: A Guide on Content Creating

This is a blog I've thought a lot about and been meaning to write for a long time. I tried condensing nearly a decade of knowledge and experience into one definitive and deep guide on navigating and managing your content, and also engaging with your community.

Everyone that's planning to start, just started or even has years of experience creating content should read this. Guaranteed you'll get so much value out of it. Hope this helps and enjoy it!

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