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+# Kinyarwanda Spoken Words Dataset
+
+This dataset contains 102 short audio samples of spoken Kinyarwanda words, each labeled with its corresponding transcription. It is designed for training, evaluating, and experimenting with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models in low-resource settings.
+
+## Structure
+
+- `audio/`: Contains 102 `.wav` files (mono, 16kHz)
+- `transcripts.txt`: Tab-separated transcription file (e.g., `001.wav\tmuraho.`)
+- `manifest.jsonl`: JSONL file with audio paths and text labels (compatible with 🤗 Datasets and Whisper training scripts)
+
+## Example
+
+```json
+{"audio_filepath": "audio/001.wav", "text": "muraho."}
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+ds = load_dataset("benax-rw/my_kinyarwanda_dataset", split="train")
+example = ds[0]
+print(example["audio"]["array"], example["text"])
+```
+
+## License
+
+This dataset is published for educational and research purposes.
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this dataset, please cite:
+> Baziramwabo Gabriel, KinyaWhisper Dataset for Fine-tuning Whisper on Kinyarwanda (2025)