README.md

---
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}
}
```