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African Next Voices: Kenya and Tanzania

Domain:

agricultureeducationsocioeconomic

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
Digital Umuganda
Afrivoice_Swahili is an open-source image-prompt speech corpus for Swahili ASR development. It contains ~3,000 hours of audio spanning five domains: Agriculture, Education, Finance, Government, and Health.

Visit

huggingface.co

Tasks

automatic speech recognitionspeech processing

Languages

Swahili

Tags

African Next VoicesANVASRDigital UmugandaKenyaTanzania

Licenses

CC BY 4.0

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