Ethnic Voices Tanzania

Preserving Tanzania's Indigenous Languages Through Open Data and Artificial Intelligence

Ethnic Voices Tanzania is a research initiative led by Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), dedicated to developing openly accessible speech and text resources for Tanzania's underrepresented indigenous languages.

The initiative currently focuses on six languages: Sukuma, Hehe, Zinza, Runyambo, Subi, and Luguru.

Our goal is to support language preservation and advance the development of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and other AI-powered language technologies.

Our Datasets

Tanzanian Ethnic Voices (EVOC) Speech Dataset

An openly accessible multilingual speech resource covering six Tanzanian ethnic community languages, distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Research Institution

Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
Morogoro, Tanzania

Funding Acknowledgement

This work was carried out with support from lacunafund.org and google.org.

Disclaimer

The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of Lacuna Fund, its Steering Committee, or CENIA.