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  ## 📌 ASR Evaluation Configurations
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  | Config Name | Language | ISO | # Samples | # Hours |
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  |-------------|----------|-----|----------|--------|
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  | asr_test_Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | 1,000 | 1.35 |
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  | asr_test_yor | Yoruba | yor | 359 | 0.42 |
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  | asr_test_zgh | Standard Moroccan Tamazight | zgh | 197 | 0.22 |
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  | asr_test_zul | Zulu | zul | 1,000 | 1.10 |
 
 
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  ## 📌 TTS Evaluation Configurations
 
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  | Config Name | Language | ISO | # Samples | # Hours |
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  | tts_test_sot | Southern Sotho | sot | 210 | 0.33 |
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  | tts_test_Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | 83 | 0.22 |
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  ## 📌 SLID Evaluation
 
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  | Config Name | Language Scope | # Samples | # Hours |
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  |--------------|---------------|----------|--------|
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  | slid_61_test | 61 Languages | 21,817 | 34.36 |
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  ## 📌 Training data
 
 
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  | Config Name | Language | # Samples (Train / Dev) | # Hours (Train / Dev) |
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  |----------------|-------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|
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  | asr_train_dev | 42 languages | 218,515 / 7,500 | 204.51 / 10.49 |
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  | slid_train_dev | 49 languages | 355,337 / 8,529 | 330.50 / 13.49 |
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  | tts_train_dev | 7 languages | 81,729 / 1,347 | 140.51 / 3.49 |
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  | **TOTAL** | | **655,581 / 17,376** | **675.52 / 27.47** |
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- ## Citation
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- If you use the Simba models or SimbaBench benchmark for your scientific publication, or if you find the resources in this website useful, please cite our paper.
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- ```bibtex
 
 
 
 
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  @inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-voice,
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  title = "Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica{'}s Speech Technology Frontier",
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  author = "Elmadany, AbdelRahim A. and
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  pages = "11039--11061",
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  ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
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  }
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ```
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  ```
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  ## 📌 ASR Evaluation Configurations
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+ <details>
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+
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  | Config Name | Language | ISO | # Samples | # Hours |
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  |-------------|----------|-----|----------|--------|
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  | asr_test_Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | 1,000 | 1.35 |
 
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  | asr_test_yor | Yoruba | yor | 359 | 0.42 |
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  | asr_test_zgh | Standard Moroccan Tamazight | zgh | 197 | 0.22 |
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  | asr_test_zul | Zulu | zul | 1,000 | 1.10 |
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+
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+ </details>
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  ## 📌 TTS Evaluation Configurations
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+ <details>
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  | Config Name | Language | ISO | # Samples | # Hours |
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  |----------------------|----------------|-------------|----------|--------|
 
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  | tts_test_sot | Southern Sotho | sot | 210 | 0.33 |
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  | tts_test_Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | Akuapim-twi | 83 | 0.22 |
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+ </details>
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  ## 📌 SLID Evaluation
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+ <details>
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  | Config Name | Language Scope | # Samples | # Hours |
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  |--------------|---------------|----------|--------|
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  | slid_61_test | 61 Languages | 21,817 | 34.36 |
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+ </details>
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  ## 📌 Training data
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+ <details>
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+
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  | Config Name | Language | # Samples (Train / Dev) | # Hours (Train / Dev) |
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  |----------------|-------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|
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  | asr_train_dev | 42 languages | 218,515 / 7,500 | 204.51 / 10.49 |
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  | slid_train_dev | 49 languages | 355,337 / 8,529 | 330.50 / 13.49 |
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  | tts_train_dev | 7 languages | 81,729 / 1,347 | 140.51 / 3.49 |
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  | **TOTAL** | | **655,581 / 17,376** | **675.52 / 27.47** |
 
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+ </details>
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📖 Citation
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+
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+ If you use the **SimbaBench** dataset for your scientific publication, or if you find the resources in this repository useful, please cite our paper and the original dataset papers.
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+
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+ #### 📄 SimbaBench Paper
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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  @inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-voice,
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  title = "Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica{'}s Speech Technology Frontier",
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  author = "Elmadany, AbdelRahim A. and
 
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  pages = "11039--11061",
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  ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
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  }
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+ ```
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+
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+ #### 📄 Original ASR Datasets Citation
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Besacier & Gauthier, 2023 — Alffa Public</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{besacier-gauthier-2023-alffa,
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+ author = {Besacier, Laurent and Gauthier, Elodie},
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+ title = {{ALFFA\_PUBLIC}: {A}frican Languages Factored Lattices
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+ for Automatic Speech Recognition},
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+ year = {2023},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/getalp/ALFFA_PUBLIC}},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Sikasote & Anastasopoulos, 2022 — BembaSpeech</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{sikasote-anastasopoulos-2022-bembaspeech,
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+ author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Anastasopoulos, Antonios},
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+ title = {{BembaSpeech}: A Speech Recognition Corpus for the
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+ Bemba Language},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation
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+ Conference},
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+ pages = {7277--7283},
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+ year = {2022},
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+ address = {Marseille, France},
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+ publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Mozilla Foundation, 2023 — Common Voice (CV-19)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{mozilla-2023-commonvoice,
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+ author = {{Mozilla Foundation}},
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+ title = {Mozilla Common Voice: A Massively Multilingual Open
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+ Dataset for Voice Technologies},
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+ year = {2023},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://commonvoice.mozilla.org}},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Asamoah Owusu et al., 2022 — Financial Speech</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{asamoahowusu-etal-2022-financialspeech,
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+ author = {{Asamoah Owusu}, D. and Korsah, A. and Quartey, B.
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+ and {Nwolley Jnr.}, S. and Sampah, D.
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+ and Adjepon-Yamoah, D. and {Omane Boateng}, L.},
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+ title = {Financial Inclusion Speech Dataset},
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+ year = {2022},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Ashesi-Org/Financial-Inclusion-Speech-Dataset}},
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+ note = {Created by Ashesi University and Nokwary Technologies
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+ with funding from Lacuna Fund},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Gauthier et al., 2024 — Kallaama</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{gauthier-etal-2024-kallaama,
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+ author = {Gauthier, Elodie and Ndiaye, Aminata and Guissé, Abdoulaye},
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+ title = {Kallaama: A Transcribed Speech Dataset about Agriculture
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+ in the Three Most Widely Spoken Languages in {S}enegal},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for
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+ African Indigenous Languages ({RAIL}) @ {LREC-COLING} 2024},
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+ year = {2024},
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+ address = {Lannion, France; Dakar and Thiès, Sénégal},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Van Heerden et al., 2016 — Lwazi</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{vanheerden-etal-2016-lwazi,
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+ author = {Van Heerden, Charl and Kleynhans, Neil and Davel, Marelie H.},
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+ title = {Improving the {Lwazi} {ASR} Baseline},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2016},
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+ year = {2016},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>NaijaVoices, 2024 — Naija Voices</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{naijavoices-2024,
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+ author = {{NaijaVoices}},
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+ title = {{NaijaVoices} Dataset: A Multilingual Speech Corpus
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+ for {N}igerian Languages},
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+ year = {2024},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://naijavoices.com/}},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Barnard et al., 2014 — NCHLT + AUX1/2</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{barnard-etal-2014-nchlt,
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+ author = {Barnard, Etienne and Davel, Marelie H. and
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+ Van Heerden, Charl and De Wet, Febe and Badenhorst, Jaco},
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+ title = {The {NCHLT} Speech Corpus of the {S}outh {A}frican Languages},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Spoken Language Technologies for
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+ Under-resourced Languages ({SLTU}) Workshop},
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+ pages = {194--200},
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+ year = {2014},
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+ address = {St. Petersburg, Russia},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Doumbouya et al., 2021 — Nicolingua (0003 & 0004)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua,
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+ author = {Doumbouya, Moussa and Einstein, Lisa and Piech, Chris},
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+ title = {Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition:
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+ Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
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+ volume = {35},
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+ year = {2021},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Gutkin et al., 2020 — YorubaVoice</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{gutkin-etal-2020-yoruba,
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+ author = {Gutkin, Alexander and Demirşahin, Işın and
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+ Kjartansson, Oddur and Rivera, Clara and Túbòsún, Kólá},
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+ title = {Developing an Open-Source Corpus of {Y}oruba Speech},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2020},
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+ pages = {404--408},
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+ year = {2020},
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+ address = {Shanghai, China},
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+ publisher = {International Speech and Communication Association ({ISCA})},
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+ doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1096},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Sikasote et al., 2023 — Zambezi Voice (ASR & Audio Only)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi,
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+ author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly
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+ and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin
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+ and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios},
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+ title = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages},
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+ booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023},
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+ pages = {3984--3988},
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+ year = {2023},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Van der Westhuizen & Niesler, 2018 — SO (Code-Switched)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{derwesthuizen-niesler-2018-soap,
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+ author = {{Van der Westhuizen}, Ewald and Niesler, Thomas},
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+ title = {A First {S}outh {A}frican Corpus of Multilingual Code-switched
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+ Soap Opera Speech},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
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+ Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
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+ year = {2018},
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+ address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
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+ publisher = {European Language Resources Association ({ELRA})},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Modipa et al., 2015 — SPCS (Code-Switched)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{modipa-etal-2015-spcs,
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+ author = {Modipa, T. I. and Davel, M. H. and De Wet, F.},
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+ title = {Implications of {S}epedi/{E}nglish Code Switching for {ASR} Systems},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition Association of
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+ {S}outh {A}frica ({PRASA})},
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+ pages = {112--117},
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+ year = {2015},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+
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+ #### 📄 Original SLID Datasets Citation
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Doumbouya et al., 2021 — Nicolingua (0003)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua,
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+ author = {Doumbouya, Moussa and Einstein, Lisa and Piech, Chris},
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+ title = {Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition:
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+ Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
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+ volume = {35},
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+ year = {2021},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>The Brick House Cooperative, 2024 — OlongoAfrica</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{olongoafrica-2024,
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+ author = {{The Brick House Cooperative}},
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+ title = {{OlongoAfrica} Multilingual Anthology},
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+ year = {2024},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://lingua.olongoafrica.com/}},
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+ note = {A collection of translated and narrated short stories
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+ in various African languages, including Edo, Tamazight,
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+ Yoruba, Swahili, Hausa, Tiv, Shona, Ibibio, Igbo,
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+ and Nigerian Pidgin},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>UDHR Audio, 2025 — UDHR</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{udhr-audio-2025,
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+ author = {{Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio}},
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+ title = {Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio Project},
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+ year = {2025},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://udhr.audio/}},
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+ note = {Audio recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human
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+ Rights in multiple languages},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Elmadany et al., 2025 — Voice of Africa (VOA)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-simba,
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+ author = {Elmadany, AbdelRahim and Kwon, Sang Yun and
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+ Toyin, Hawau Olamide and Inciarte, Alcides Alcoba and
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+ Aldarmaki, Hanan and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad},
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+ title = {Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica's Speech
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+ Technology Frontier},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods
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+ in Natural Language Processing},
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+ pages = {11028--11050},
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+ year = {2025},
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+ publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
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+ url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559},
819
+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Valk & Alumäe, 2021 — VoxLingua</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{valk-alumae-2021-voxlingua,
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+ author = {Valk, Jörgen and Alumäe, Tanel},
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+ title = {{VoxLingua107}: A Dataset for Spoken Language Recognition},
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+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Spoken Language Technology
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+ Workshop ({SLT})},
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+ year = {2021},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Sikasote et al., 2023 — Zambezi Voice (Audio Only)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi,
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+ author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly
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+ and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin
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+ and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios},
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+ title = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages},
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+ booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023},
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+ pages = {3984--3988},
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+ year = {2023},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+
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+ #### 📄 Original TTS Datasets Citation
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Meyer et al., 2022 — BibleTTS</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{meyer-etal-2022-bibletts,
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+ author = {Meyer, Josh and Adelani, David and Casanova, Edresson
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+ and Öktem, Alp and Whitenack, Daniel and Weber, Julian
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+ and {Kabongo Kabenamualu}, Salomon and Salesky, Elizabeth
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+ and Orife, Iroro and Leong, Colin and Ogayo, Perez
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+ and {Chinenye Emezue}, Chris and Mukiibi, Jonathan
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+ and Osei, Salomey and Agbolo, Apelete and Akinode, Victor
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+ and Opoku, Bernard and Samuel, Olanrewaju and Alabi, Jesujoba
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+ and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan},
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+ title = {{BibleTTS}: A Large, High-Fidelity, Multilingual, and
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+ Uniquely {A}frican Speech Corpus},
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+ booktitle = {Interspeech 2022},
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+ pages = {2383--2387},
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+ year = {2022},
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+ address = {Incheon, Korea},
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+ publisher = {ISCA},
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+ doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10850},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>van Niekerk et al., 2017 — High-Quality TTS (SA)</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{vanniekerk-etal-2017-hqtts,
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+ author = {van Niekerk, Daniel and van Heerden, Charl and Davel, Marelie
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+ and Kleynhans, Neil and Kjartansson, Oddur and Jansche, Martin
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+ and Ha, Linne},
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+ title = {Rapid Development of {TTS} Corpora for Four {S}outh {A}frican Languages},
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+ booktitle = {Interspeech 2017},
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+ pages = {2178--2182},
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+ year = {2017},
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+ address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
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+ publisher = {ISCA},
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+ doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1139},
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ </details>
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+
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Digital Umuganda, 2023 — Kinyarwanda TTS</b></summary>
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{digitalumuganda-2023-kinyarwanda,
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+ author = {{Digital Umuganda}},
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+ title = {{AfriSpeech} {K}inyarwanda Male and Female {TTS} Datasets},
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+ year = {2023},
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+ howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/DigitalUmuganda/afrispeak_kinyarwanda_male_tts_dataset}},
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+ }
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  ```
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