metadata

license: cc-by-3.0
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: audio
      dtype: audio
    - name: age
      dtype: string
    - name: gender
      dtype: string
    - name: speaker_id
      dtype: string
    - name: duration
      dtype: string
    - name: pdp_score
      dtype: string
    - name: utterance_id
      dtype: string
    - name: disfluency
      dtype: bool
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: typos
      dtype: bool
    - name: split
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 2775336500.297
      num_examples: 43881
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 165539801.2
      num_examples: 2770
  download_size: 3614319023
  dataset_size: 2940876301.4969997
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
task_categories:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
language:
  - xh
pretty_name: NCHLT Speech Corpus -- isiXhosa

NCHLT Speech Corpus -- isiXhosa

This is the isiXhosa language part of the NCHLT Speech Corpus of the South African languages.

Language code (ISO 639): xho

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/279

Licence:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

Attribution:

The Department of Arts and Culture of the government of the Republic of South Africa (DAC), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and North-West University (NWU).

Citation Information:

@inproceedings{barnard2014nchlt,
  title={{The NCHLT speech corpus of the South African languages}},
  author={Barnard, Etienne and Davel, Marelie H and Van Heerden, Charl and De Wet, Febe and Badenhorst, Jaco},
  booktitle={Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU)},
  year={2014}
}