Datasets:
Formats:
parquet
Size:
100K - 1M
Tags:
automatic-speech-recognition
text-to-speech
spoken-language-identification
speech
audio
african-languages
License:
| configs: | |
| - config_name: asr_train_dev | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: asr_train_dev/HF_train* | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: asr_train_dev/HF_dev* | |
| - config_name: slid_train_dev | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: slid_train_dev/HF_train* | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: slid_train_dev/HF_dev* | |
| - config_name: tts_train_dev | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: tts_train_dev/HF_train* | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: tts_train_dev/HF_dev* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_ewe | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-ewe* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_kin | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-kin* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_Asante-twi | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-Asante-twi* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_yor | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-yor* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_wol | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-wol* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_hau | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-hau* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_lin | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-lin* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_xho | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-xho* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_tsn | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-tsn* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_afr | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-afr* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_sot | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-sot* | |
| - config_name: tts_test_Akuapim-twi | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tts_test/HF_test-Akuapim-twi* | |
| - config_name: slid_61_test | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: slid_test/HF_merged_slid_test_61* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_Akuapim-twi | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-Akuapim-twi* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_Asante-twi | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-Asante-twi* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_afr | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-afr* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_amh | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-amh* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_bas | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-bas* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_bem | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-bem* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_dav | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-dav* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_dyu | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-dyu* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_fat | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-fat* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_fon | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-fon* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_fuc | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-fuc* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_fuf | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-fuf* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_gaa | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-gaa* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_hau | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-hau* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_ibo | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-ibo* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_kab | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-kab* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_kin | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-kin* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_kln | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-kln* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_loz | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-loz* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_lug | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-lug* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_luo | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-luo* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_mlq | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-mlq* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_nbl | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-nbl* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_nso | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-nso* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_nya | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-nya* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_sot | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-sot* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_srr | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-srr* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_ssw | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-ssw* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_sus | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-sus* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_swa | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-sw* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_tig | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-tig* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_tir | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-tir* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_toi | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-toi* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_tsn | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-tsn* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_tso | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-tso* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_twi | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-twi* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_ven | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-ven* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_wol | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-wol* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_xho | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-xho* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_yor | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-yor* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_zgh | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-zgh* | |
| - config_name: asr_test_zul | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: asr_test/HF_test-zul* | |
| language: | |
| - afr # Afrikaans | |
| - amh # Amharic | |
| - bas # Basaa | |
| - bem # Bemba | |
| - dyu # Dyula | |
| - ee # Ewe | |
| - fat # Fanti | |
| - fon # Fon | |
| - fra # French | |
| - fuc # Pulaar | |
| - fuf # Pular | |
| - gaa # Ga | |
| - hau # Hausa | |
| - ibo # Igbo | |
| - kab # Kabyle | |
| - kin # Kinyarwanda | |
| - kln # Kalenjin | |
| - kon # Kongo | |
| - lin # Lingala | |
| - loz # Lozi | |
| - lug # Ganda | |
| - luo # Luo | |
| - mlq # Western Maninkakan | |
| - nbl # South Ndebele | |
| - nso # Northern Sotho | |
| - nya # Nyanja | |
| - orm # Oromo | |
| - por # Portuguese | |
| - sna # Shona | |
| - som # Somali | |
| - sot # Southern Sotho | |
| - ssw # Swati | |
| - swa # Swahili | |
| - tir # Tigrinya | |
| - tig # Tigre | |
| - toi # Tonga (Zambia) | |
| - tsn # Tswana | |
| - tso # Tsonga | |
| - twi # Twi | |
| - ven # Venda | |
| - wol # Wolof | |
| - xho # Xhosa | |
| - yor # Yoruba | |
| - zul # Zulu | |
| - zgh # Standard Moroccan Tamazight | |
| - aka # Akan (Akuapim/Asante Twi variants) | |
| - mos # Mossi | |
| - umb # Umbundu | |
| - din # Dinka | |
| - sag # Sango | |
| - mlg # Malagasy | |
| license: cc-by-4.0 | |
| tags: | |
| - automatic-speech-recognition | |
| - text-to-speech | |
| - spoken-language-identification | |
| - speech | |
| - audio | |
| - african-languages | |
| - multilingual | |
| - low-resource | |
| - benchmark | |
| - simbabench | |
| - simba | |
| task_categories: | |
| - automatic-speech-recognition | |
| - text-to-speech | |
| - audio-classification | |
| models: | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-S | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-M | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-H | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-W | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-X | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-twi-asanti | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-lin | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-sot | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-tsn | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-xho | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-twi-akuapem | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-TTS-afr | |
| - UBC-NLP/Simba-SLID-49 | |
| datasets: | |
| - UBC-NLP/SimbaBench | |
| <div align="center"> | |
| <img src="https://africa.dlnlp.ai/simba/images/VoC_logo.png" alt="VoC Logo"> | |
| [](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559/) | |
| [](https://africa.dlnlp.ai/simba/) | |
| [](https://huggingface.co/spaces/UBC-NLP/SimbaBench) | |
| [](https://github.com/UBC-NLP/simba) | |
| [](https://huggingface.co/collections/UBC-NLP/simba-speech-series) | |
| [](https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset) | |
| </div> | |
| ## SibmaBench Data Release & Benchmarking | |
| To evaluate your model on **SimbaBench** across all supported tasks (ASR, TTS, and SLID), simply load the corresponding configuration for the task and language you wish to benchmark. | |
| Each task is organized by configuration name (e.g., `asr_test_afr`, `tts_test_wol`, `slid_61_test`). Loading a configuration provides the standardized evaluation split for that specific benchmark. | |
| Example: | |
| ```python | |
| from datasets import load_dataset | |
| data = load_dataset("UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset", "asr_test_afr") | |
| ``` | |
| ``` | |
| DatasetDict({ | |
| test: Dataset({ | |
| features: ['split', 'benchmark_id', 'audio', 'text', 'duration_s', 'lang_iso3', 'lang_name'], | |
| num_rows: 1000 | |
| }) | |
| }) | |
| ``` | |
| ``` python | |
| data['test'][0] | |
| ``` | |
| ``` | |
| {'split': 'test', | |
| 'benchmark_id': 'afr_Lwazi_afr_test_idx3889', | |
| 'audio': {'path': None, | |
| 'array': array([ 4.27246094e-04, 7.62939453e-04, 6.71386719e-04, ..., | |
| -3.05175781e-04, -2.13623047e-04, -6.10351562e-05]), | |
| 'sampling_rate': 16000}, | |
| 'text': 'watter, verontwaardiging sou daar, in ons binneste gewees het?', | |
| 'duration_s': 5.119999885559082, | |
| 'lang_iso3': 'afr', | |
| 'lang_name': 'Afrikaans'} | |
| ``` | |
| ## 📌 ASR Evaluation Configurations | |
| <details> | |
| | Config Name | Language | ISO | # Samples | # Hours | | |
| |-------------|----------|-----|----------|--------| | |
| | asr_test_Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | 1,000 | 1.35 | | |
| | asr_test_Asante-twi | Asante-twi | Asante-twi | 1,000 | 0.97 | | |
| | asr_test_afr | Afrikaans | afr | 1,000 | 0.87 | | |
| | asr_test_amh | Amharic | amh | 581 | 1.12 | | |
| | asr_test_bas | Basaa | bas | 582 | 0.76 | | |
| | asr_test_bem | Bemba | bem | 1,000 | 2.15 | | |
| | asr_test_dav | Taita | dav | 878 | 1.17 | | |
| | asr_test_dyu | Dyula | dyu | 59 | 0.10 | | |
| | asr_test_fat | Fanti | fat | 1,000 | 1.38 | | |
| | asr_test_fon | Fon | fon | 1,000 | 0.66 | | |
| | asr_test_fuc | Pulaar | fuc | 100 | 0.10 | | |
| | asr_test_fuf | Pular | fuf | 129 | 0.03 | | |
| | asr_test_gaa | Ga | gaa | 1,000 | 1.52 | | |
| | asr_test_hau | Hausa | hau | 681 | 0.89 | | |
| | asr_test_ibo | Igbo | ibo | 5 | 0.01 | | |
| | asr_test_kab | Kabyle | kab | 1,000 | 1.05 | | |
| | asr_test_kin | Kinyarwanda | kin | 1,000 | 1.50 | | |
| | asr_test_kln | Kalenjin | kln | 1,000 | 1.50 | | |
| | asr_test_loz | Lozi | loz | 399 | 0.91 | | |
| | asr_test_lug | Ganda | lug | 1,000 | 1.65 | | |
| | asr_test_luo | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) | luo | 1,000 | 1.31 | | |
| | asr_test_mlq | Western Maninkakan | mlq | 182 | 0.04 | | |
| | asr_test_nbl | South Ndebele | nbl | 1,000 | 1.12 | | |
| | asr_test_nso | Northern Sotho | nso | 1,000 | 0.88 | | |
| | asr_test_nya | Nyanja | nya | 428 | 1.31 | | |
| | asr_test_sot | Southern Sotho | sot | 1,000 | 0.82 | | |
| | asr_test_srr | Serer | srr | 899 | 2.84 | | |
| | asr_test_ssw | Swati | ssw | 1,000 | 0.93 | | |
| | asr_test_sus | Susu | sus | 210 | 0.05 | | |
| | asr_test_swa | Swahili | swa | 1,000 | 1.23 | | |
| | asr_test_tig | Tigre | tig | 185 | 0.33 | | |
| | asr_test_tir | Tigrinya | tir | 7 | 0.01 | | |
| | asr_test_toi | Tonga (Zambia) | toi | 463 | 1.47 | | |
| | asr_test_tsn | Tswana | tsn | 1,000 | 0.82 | | |
| | asr_test_tso | Tsonga | tso | 1,000 | 0.99 | | |
| | asr_test_twi | Twi | twi | 12 | 0.02 | | |
| | asr_test_ven | Venda | ven | 1,000 | 0.92 | | |
| | asr_test_wol | Wolof | wol | 1,000 | 1.19 | | |
| | asr_test_xho | Xhosa | xho | 1,000 | 0.92 | | |
| | asr_test_yor | Yoruba | yor | 359 | 0.42 | | |
| | asr_test_zgh | Standard Moroccan Tamazight | zgh | 197 | 0.22 | | |
| | asr_test_zul | Zulu | zul | 1,000 | 1.10 | | |
| </details> | |
| ## 📌 TTS Evaluation Configurations | |
| <details> | |
| | Config Name | Language | ISO | # Samples | # Hours | | |
| |----------------------|----------------|-------------|----------|--------| | |
| | tts_test_ewe | Ewe | ewe | 66 | 0.29 | | |
| | tts_test_kin | Kinyarwanda | kin | 1,053 | 1.30 | | |
| | tts_test_Asante-twi | Asante-twi | Asante-twi | 64 | 0.18 | | |
| | tts_test_yor | Yoruba | yor | 40 | 0.13 | | |
| | tts_test_wol | Wolof | wol | 4,001 | 4.12 | | |
| | tts_test_hau | Hausa | hau | 124 | 0.24 | | |
| | tts_test_lin | Lingala | lin | 63 | 0.28 | | |
| | tts_test_xho | Xhosa | xho | 242 | 0.31 | | |
| | tts_test_tsn | Tswana | tsn | 238 | 0.36 | | |
| | tts_test_afr | Afrikaans | afr | 293 | 0.34 | | |
| | tts_test_sot | Southern Sotho | sot | 210 | 0.33 | | |
| | tts_test_Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | 83 | 0.22 | | |
| </details> | |
| ## 📌 SLID Evaluation | |
| <details> | |
| | Config Name | Language Scope | # Samples | # Hours | | |
| |--------------|---------------|----------|--------| | |
| | slid_61_test | 61 Languages | 21,817 | 34.36 | | |
| </details> | |
| ## 📌 Training data | |
| <details> | |
| | Config Name | Language | # Samples (Train / Dev) | # Hours (Train / Dev) | | |
| |----------------|-------------|---------------------------|-------------------------| | |
| | asr_train_dev | 42 languages | 218,515 / 7,500 | 204.51 / 10.49 | | |
| | slid_train_dev | 49 languages | 355,337 / 8,529 | 330.50 / 13.49 | | |
| | tts_train_dev | 7 languages | 81,729 / 1,347 | 140.51 / 3.49 | | |
| | **TOTAL** | | **655,581 / 17,376** | **675.52 / 27.47** | | |
| </details> | |
| --- | |
| ## 📖 Citation | |
| If you use the **SimbaBench** dataset for your scientific publication, or if you find the resources in this repository useful, please cite our paper and the original dataset papers. | |
| #### 📄 SimbaBench Paper | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-voice, | |
| title = "Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica{'}s Speech Technology Frontier", | |
| author = "Elmadany, AbdelRahim A. and | |
| Kwon, Sang Yun and | |
| Toyin, Hawau Olamide and | |
| Alcoba Inciarte, Alcides and | |
| Aldarmaki, Hanan and | |
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", | |
| editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and | |
| Chakraborty, Tanmoy and | |
| Rose, Carolyn and | |
| Peng, Violet", | |
| booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", | |
| month = nov, | |
| year = "2025", | |
| address = "Suzhou, China", | |
| publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", | |
| url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559/", | |
| doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.559", | |
| pages = "11039--11061", | |
| ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6", | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| #### 📄 Original ASR Datasets Citation | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Besacier & Gauthier, 2023 — Alffa Public</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{besacier-gauthier-2023-alffa, | |
| author = {Besacier, Laurent and Gauthier, Elodie}, | |
| title = {{ALFFA\_PUBLIC}: {A}frican Languages Factored Lattices | |
| for Automatic Speech Recognition}, | |
| year = {2023}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/getalp/ALFFA_PUBLIC}}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Sikasote & Anastasopoulos, 2022 — BembaSpeech</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{sikasote-anastasopoulos-2022-bembaspeech, | |
| author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Anastasopoulos, Antonios}, | |
| title = {{BembaSpeech}: A Speech Recognition Corpus for the | |
| Bemba Language}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation | |
| Conference}, | |
| pages = {7277--7283}, | |
| year = {2022}, | |
| address = {Marseille, France}, | |
| publisher = {European Language Resources Association}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Mozilla Foundation, 2023 — Common Voice (CV-19)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{mozilla-2023-commonvoice, | |
| author = {{Mozilla Foundation}}, | |
| title = {Mozilla Common Voice: A Massively Multilingual Open | |
| Dataset for Voice Technologies}, | |
| year = {2023}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://commonvoice.mozilla.org}}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Asamoah Owusu et al., 2022 — Financial Speech</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{asamoahowusu-etal-2022-financialspeech, | |
| author = {{Asamoah Owusu}, D. and Korsah, A. and Quartey, B. | |
| and {Nwolley Jnr.}, S. and Sampah, D. | |
| and Adjepon-Yamoah, D. and {Omane Boateng}, L.}, | |
| title = {Financial Inclusion Speech Dataset}, | |
| year = {2022}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Ashesi-Org/Financial-Inclusion-Speech-Dataset}}, | |
| note = {Created by Ashesi University and Nokwary Technologies | |
| with funding from Lacuna Fund}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Gauthier et al., 2024 — Kallaama</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{gauthier-etal-2024-kallaama, | |
| author = {Gauthier, Elodie and Ndiaye, Aminata and Guissé, Abdoulaye}, | |
| title = {Kallaama: A Transcribed Speech Dataset about Agriculture | |
| in the Three Most Widely Spoken Languages in {S}enegal}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for | |
| African Indigenous Languages ({RAIL}) @ {LREC-COLING} 2024}, | |
| year = {2024}, | |
| address = {Lannion, France; Dakar and Thiès, Sénégal}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Van Heerden et al., 2016 — Lwazi</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{vanheerden-etal-2016-lwazi, | |
| author = {Van Heerden, Charl and Kleynhans, Neil and Davel, Marelie H.}, | |
| title = {Improving the {Lwazi} {ASR} Baseline}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2016}, | |
| year = {2016}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>NaijaVoices, 2024 — Naija Voices</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{naijavoices-2024, | |
| author = {{NaijaVoices}}, | |
| title = {{NaijaVoices} Dataset: A Multilingual Speech Corpus | |
| for {N}igerian Languages}, | |
| year = {2024}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://naijavoices.com/}}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Barnard et al., 2014 — NCHLT + AUX1/2</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{barnard-etal-2014-nchlt, | |
| author = {Barnard, Etienne and Davel, Marelie H. and | |
| Van Heerden, Charl and De Wet, Febe and Badenhorst, Jaco}, | |
| title = {The {NCHLT} Speech Corpus of the {S}outh {A}frican Languages}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Spoken Language Technologies for | |
| Under-resourced Languages ({SLTU}) Workshop}, | |
| pages = {194--200}, | |
| year = {2014}, | |
| address = {St. Petersburg, Russia}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Doumbouya et al., 2021 — Nicolingua (0003 & 0004)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua, | |
| author = {Doumbouya, Moussa and Einstein, Lisa and Piech, Chris}, | |
| title = {Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition: | |
| Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, | |
| volume = {35}, | |
| year = {2021}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Gutkin et al., 2020 — YorubaVoice</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{gutkin-etal-2020-yoruba, | |
| author = {Gutkin, Alexander and Demirşahin, Işın and | |
| Kjartansson, Oddur and Rivera, Clara and Túbòsún, Kólá}, | |
| title = {Developing an Open-Source Corpus of {Y}oruba Speech}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2020}, | |
| pages = {404--408}, | |
| year = {2020}, | |
| address = {Shanghai, China}, | |
| publisher = {International Speech and Communication Association ({ISCA})}, | |
| doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1096}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Sikasote et al., 2023 — Zambezi Voice (ASR & Audio Only)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi, | |
| author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly | |
| and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin | |
| and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios}, | |
| title = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages}, | |
| booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023}, | |
| pages = {3984--3988}, | |
| year = {2023}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Van der Westhuizen & Niesler, 2018 — SO (Code-Switched)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{derwesthuizen-niesler-2018-soap, | |
| author = {{Van der Westhuizen}, Ewald and Niesler, Thomas}, | |
| title = {A First {S}outh {A}frican Corpus of Multilingual Code-switched | |
| Soap Opera Speech}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on | |
| Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)}, | |
| year = {2018}, | |
| address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, | |
| publisher = {European Language Resources Association ({ELRA})}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Modipa et al., 2015 — SPCS (Code-Switched)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{modipa-etal-2015-spcs, | |
| author = {Modipa, T. I. and Davel, M. H. and De Wet, F.}, | |
| title = {Implications of {S}epedi/{E}nglish Code Switching for {ASR} Systems}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition Association of | |
| {S}outh {A}frica ({PRASA})}, | |
| pages = {112--117}, | |
| year = {2015}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| #### 📄 Original SLID Datasets Citation | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Doumbouya et al., 2021 — Nicolingua (0003)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua, | |
| author = {Doumbouya, Moussa and Einstein, Lisa and Piech, Chris}, | |
| title = {Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition: | |
| Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, | |
| volume = {35}, | |
| year = {2021}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>The Brick House Cooperative, 2024 — OlongoAfrica</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{olongoafrica-2024, | |
| author = {{The Brick House Cooperative}}, | |
| title = {{OlongoAfrica} Multilingual Anthology}, | |
| year = {2024}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://lingua.olongoafrica.com/}}, | |
| note = {A collection of translated and narrated short stories | |
| in various African languages, including Edo, Tamazight, | |
| Yoruba, Swahili, Hausa, Tiv, Shona, Ibibio, Igbo, | |
| and Nigerian Pidgin}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>UDHR Audio, 2025 — UDHR</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{udhr-audio-2025, | |
| author = {{Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio}}, | |
| title = {Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio Project}, | |
| year = {2025}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://udhr.audio/}}, | |
| note = {Audio recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human | |
| Rights in multiple languages}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Elmadany et al., 2025 — Voice of Africa (VOA)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-simba, | |
| author = {Elmadany, AbdelRahim and Kwon, Sang Yun and | |
| Toyin, Hawau Olamide and Inciarte, Alcides Alcoba and | |
| Aldarmaki, Hanan and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad}, | |
| title = {Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica's Speech | |
| Technology Frontier}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods | |
| in Natural Language Processing}, | |
| pages = {11028--11050}, | |
| year = {2025}, | |
| publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, | |
| url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Valk & Alumäe, 2021 — VoxLingua</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{valk-alumae-2021-voxlingua, | |
| author = {Valk, Jörgen and Alumäe, Tanel}, | |
| title = {{VoxLingua107}: A Dataset for Spoken Language Recognition}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Spoken Language Technology | |
| Workshop ({SLT})}, | |
| year = {2021}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Sikasote et al., 2023 — Zambezi Voice (Audio Only)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi, | |
| author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly | |
| and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin | |
| and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios}, | |
| title = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages}, | |
| booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023}, | |
| pages = {3984--3988}, | |
| year = {2023}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| #### 📄 Original TTS Datasets Citation | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Meyer et al., 2022 — BibleTTS</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{meyer-etal-2022-bibletts, | |
| author = {Meyer, Josh and Adelani, David and Casanova, Edresson | |
| and Öktem, Alp and Whitenack, Daniel and Weber, Julian | |
| and {Kabongo Kabenamualu}, Salomon and Salesky, Elizabeth | |
| and Orife, Iroro and Leong, Colin and Ogayo, Perez | |
| and {Chinenye Emezue}, Chris and Mukiibi, Jonathan | |
| and Osei, Salomey and Agbolo, Apelete and Akinode, Victor | |
| and Opoku, Bernard and Samuel, Olanrewaju and Alabi, Jesujoba | |
| and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan}, | |
| title = {{BibleTTS}: A Large, High-Fidelity, Multilingual, and | |
| Uniquely {A}frican Speech Corpus}, | |
| booktitle = {Interspeech 2022}, | |
| pages = {2383--2387}, | |
| year = {2022}, | |
| address = {Incheon, Korea}, | |
| publisher = {ISCA}, | |
| doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10850}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>van Niekerk et al., 2017 — High-Quality TTS (SA)</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{vanniekerk-etal-2017-hqtts, | |
| author = {van Niekerk, Daniel and van Heerden, Charl and Davel, Marelie | |
| and Kleynhans, Neil and Kjartansson, Oddur and Jansche, Martin | |
| and Ha, Linne}, | |
| title = {Rapid Development of {TTS} Corpora for Four {S}outh {A}frican Languages}, | |
| booktitle = {Interspeech 2017}, | |
| pages = {2178--2182}, | |
| year = {2017}, | |
| address = {Stockholm, Sweden}, | |
| publisher = {ISCA}, | |
| doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1139}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |
| <details> | |
| <summary><b>Digital Umuganda, 2023 — Kinyarwanda TTS</b></summary> | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{digitalumuganda-2023-kinyarwanda, | |
| author = {{Digital Umuganda}}, | |
| title = {{AfriSpeech} {K}inyarwanda Male and Female {TTS} Datasets}, | |
| year = {2023}, | |
| howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/DigitalUmuganda/afrispeak_kinyarwanda_male_tts_dataset}}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| </details> | |