Tarifit PBC: 81 Phonetically Balanced Sentences for Riffian Berber TTS

81 sentences across three CSV files provide the first phonetically balanced corpus for Tarifit (Riffian Berber) text-to-speech training, created by jamalinu in 2026. The collection includes IPA transcriptions and a native-validated customer service subset specifically formatted for Coqui TTS.

Use Cases

• Phonetic analysis of Riffian Berber using the IPA transcriptions in tarifit_pbc_corpus.csv
• Text-to-speech model configuration using the Coqui-formatted metadata.csv
• Developing customer service scripts using the native-validated sentences in tarifit_customer_service_tts.csv

Strengths

• First phonetically balanced corpus for Tarifit
• Includes IPA transcriptions for 57 sentences
• Native-validated customer service phrases

Limitations

• Extremely small sample size of 81 sentences
• Lacks corresponding audio recordings
• Narrow domain focus

Provenance

Source

jamalinu via Hugging Face

Collection Method

Native validation and phonetic balancing

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Northern Morocco (Riffian region)