BembaSpeech is an ASR corpus for the Bemba language of Zambia. It contains read speech from diverse publicly available Bemba sources; literature books, radio/TV shows transcripts, Youtube video transcripts as well as various open online sources. Its purpose is to enable the training and testing of automatic speech recognition(ASR) systems in Bemba language. The corpus has 14, 438 utterances culminating into 24.5 hours of speech data.