| --- |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: audio |
| dtype: audio |
| - name: transcription |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gender |
| dtype: string |
| - name: age |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: speaker_id |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: duration |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: md5sum |
| dtype: string |
| - name: pdp_score |
| dtype: float64 |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_bytes: 4926086264.08 |
| num_examples: 41871 |
| - name: test |
| num_bytes: 452358128.68 |
| num_examples: 2802 |
| download_size: 6360680451 |
| dataset_size: 5378444392.76 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| - split: test |
| path: data/test-* |
| license: cc-by-3.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - automatic-speech-recognition |
| language: |
| - zu |
| pretty_name: NCHLT isiZulu Auxiliary Speech Corpus |
| --- |
| ## Dataset Details |
| This is the Zulu language split of the NCHLT speech corpus (nchlt-clean split). It containes 56 hours and 14 minutes hours of isiZulu speech from 210 (98 Male; 112 Female) native speakers of the language. Each recording consists of a speaker reading three words. These words were sourced from South African government websites. The full corpus can be downloaded from the [SADILAR website.](https://repo.sadilar.org/handle/20.500.12185/275) |
|
|
| For a full description of the corpus, see Barnard et al. 2014. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| **BibTeX:** |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @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}, |
| year={2014}, |
| organization={Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU)} |
| ``` |
