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ALFFA Swahili News

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
nic
Host:
The ALFFA Swahili News dataset is a speech corpus designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) research in Swahili, an under-resourced African language. This dataset is part of the ALFFA (African Languages in the Field: speech Fundamentals and Automation) project and contains approximately 11.8 hours of broadcast news audio from Radio France International's Swahili service, recorded between November 2010 and March 2011.

Visit

huggingface.co

Tasks

automatic speech recognitionspeech processing

Languages

Swahili

Licenses

mit

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