freococo/jw_myanmar_bible_10books_audio

📖 JW Myanmar Bible Audio-Text Dataset (New World Translation)

This dataset is a parallel corpus of audio recordings and Myanmar (Burmese) transcriptions of the New World Translation (NWT) Bible, published by Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW.org). It covers selected books and chapters from both the Old and New Testaments, focused on spoken-style Burmese with clear narration.

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✨ Dataset Highlights

• 🎧 High-quality chapter-based audio in Myanmar (Zawgyi-free Unicode)
• 📝 Aligned transcriptions with chapter markers (e.g., "အခန်းကြီး (၁)")
• 📦 Structured as file_name / transcription pairs
• 🗂 Ideal for ASR training, speech-text alignment, multimodal religious studies, and Myanmar NLP
• 🎧 Over 24 hours of fully transcribed Myanmar Bible audio aligned chapter-by-chapter

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🔍 Sample Row from metadata.csv

| file_name           | transcription |
|---------------------|---------------|
| nwt_01_Ge_BU_01.mp3 | အခန်းကြီး (၁) အစအဦးမှာ ဘုရားသခင်က ... |

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📚 Use Cases

• 🧠 Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
• 🔤 Speech-to-Text fine-tuning for Burmese
• 🕊 Religious language understanding
• 🗣 Text-to-Speech (TTS) Burmese Bible voices
• 📊 Linguistic analysis of spoken-style religious Burmese

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📛 License

License Type: Custom Non-Commercial License
See LICENSE for full terms.

This dataset is provided for non-commercial research and educational use only. It is a derivative of JW.org’s Myanmar Bible audio and is released under fair-use conditions.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

This dataset would not be possible without:

• JW.org Myanmar Bible Team
• Myanmar linguists, readers, and digital archivists
• Volunteers who preserved and narrated the spoken Burmese text

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💡 Notes from the Author

• No sponsorship, grant, or funding was received for this work.
• This was created out of passion for languages, linguistics, and open-source learning.
• Created and maintained by freococo.

"Language is a gift. Let’s preserve it, analyze it, and make it accessible to all."

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📌 Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{jw_myanmar_audio_2025,
  title        = {JW Myanmar Bible Audio-Text Dataset},
  author       = {freococo},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/jw_myanmar_bible_audio},
  note         = {Aligned Myanmar Bible audio and transcription dataset from JW.org, for research purposes}
}