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## 📌 ASR Evaluation Configurations
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| asr_test_yor | Yoruba | yor | 359 | 0.42 |
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| asr_test_zul | Zulu | zul | 1,000 | 1.10 |
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## 📌 TTS Evaluation Configurations
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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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| slid_61_test | 61 Languages | 21,817 | 34.36 |
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## 📌 Training data
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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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@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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## 📌 ASR Evaluation Configurations
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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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| 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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| slid_61_test | 61 Languages | 21,817 | 34.36 |
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## 📌 Training data
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<details>
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| Config Name | Language | # Samples (Train / Dev) | # Hours (Train / Dev) |
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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 **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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#### 📄 SimbaBench 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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#### 📄 Original ASR Datasets Citation
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<summary><b>Besacier & Gauthier, 2023 — Alffa Public</b></summary>
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title = {{ALFFA\_PUBLIC}: {A}frican Languages Factored Lattices
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<summary><b>Sikasote & Anastasopoulos, 2022 — BembaSpeech</b></summary>
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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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Conference},
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year = {2022},
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publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
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<summary><b>Mozilla Foundation, 2023 — Common Voice (CV-19)</b></summary>
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<summary><b>Gauthier et al., 2024 — Kallaama</b></summary>
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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},
|
| 626 |
+
}
|
| 627 |
+
```
|
| 628 |
+
|
| 629 |
+
</details>
|
| 630 |
+
|
| 631 |
+
<details>
|
| 632 |
+
<summary><b>NaijaVoices, 2024 — Naija Voices</b></summary>
|
| 633 |
+
|
| 634 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 635 |
+
@misc{naijavoices-2024,
|
| 636 |
+
author = {{NaijaVoices}},
|
| 637 |
+
title = {{NaijaVoices} Dataset: A Multilingual Speech Corpus
|
| 638 |
+
for {N}igerian Languages},
|
| 639 |
+
year = {2024},
|
| 640 |
+
howpublished = {\url{https://naijavoices.com/}},
|
| 641 |
+
}
|
| 642 |
+
```
|
| 643 |
+
|
| 644 |
+
</details>
|
| 645 |
+
|
| 646 |
+
<details>
|
| 647 |
+
<summary><b>Barnard et al., 2014 — NCHLT + AUX1/2</b></summary>
|
| 648 |
+
|
| 649 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 650 |
+
@inproceedings{barnard-etal-2014-nchlt,
|
| 651 |
+
author = {Barnard, Etienne and Davel, Marelie H. and
|
| 652 |
+
Van Heerden, Charl and De Wet, Febe and Badenhorst, Jaco},
|
| 653 |
+
title = {The {NCHLT} Speech Corpus of the {S}outh {A}frican Languages},
|
| 654 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Spoken Language Technologies for
|
| 655 |
+
Under-resourced Languages ({SLTU}) Workshop},
|
| 656 |
+
pages = {194--200},
|
| 657 |
+
year = {2014},
|
| 658 |
+
address = {St. Petersburg, Russia},
|
| 659 |
+
}
|
| 660 |
+
```
|
| 661 |
+
|
| 662 |
+
</details>
|
| 663 |
+
|
| 664 |
+
<details>
|
| 665 |
+
<summary><b>Doumbouya et al., 2021 — Nicolingua (0003 & 0004)</b></summary>
|
| 666 |
+
|
| 667 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 668 |
+
@inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua,
|
| 669 |
+
author = {Doumbouya, Moussa and Einstein, Lisa and Piech, Chris},
|
| 670 |
+
title = {Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition:
|
| 671 |
+
Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users},
|
| 672 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
|
| 673 |
+
volume = {35},
|
| 674 |
+
year = {2021},
|
| 675 |
+
}
|
| 676 |
+
```
|
| 677 |
+
|
| 678 |
+
</details>
|
| 679 |
+
|
| 680 |
+
<details>
|
| 681 |
+
<summary><b>Gutkin et al., 2020 — YorubaVoice</b></summary>
|
| 682 |
+
|
| 683 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 684 |
+
@inproceedings{gutkin-etal-2020-yoruba,
|
| 685 |
+
author = {Gutkin, Alexander and Demirşahin, Işın and
|
| 686 |
+
Kjartansson, Oddur and Rivera, Clara and Túbòsún, Kólá},
|
| 687 |
+
title = {Developing an Open-Source Corpus of {Y}oruba Speech},
|
| 688 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2020},
|
| 689 |
+
pages = {404--408},
|
| 690 |
+
year = {2020},
|
| 691 |
+
address = {Shanghai, China},
|
| 692 |
+
publisher = {International Speech and Communication Association ({ISCA})},
|
| 693 |
+
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1096},
|
| 694 |
+
}
|
| 695 |
+
```
|
| 696 |
+
|
| 697 |
+
</details>
|
| 698 |
|
| 699 |
+
<details>
|
| 700 |
+
<summary><b>Sikasote et al., 2023 — Zambezi Voice (ASR & Audio Only)</b></summary>
|
| 701 |
+
|
| 702 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 703 |
+
@inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi,
|
| 704 |
+
author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly
|
| 705 |
+
and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin
|
| 706 |
+
and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios},
|
| 707 |
+
title = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages},
|
| 708 |
+
booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023},
|
| 709 |
+
pages = {3984--3988},
|
| 710 |
+
year = {2023},
|
| 711 |
+
}
|
| 712 |
+
```
|
| 713 |
+
|
| 714 |
+
</details>
|
| 715 |
+
|
| 716 |
+
<details>
|
| 717 |
+
<summary><b>Van der Westhuizen & Niesler, 2018 — SO (Code-Switched)</b></summary>
|
| 718 |
+
|
| 719 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 720 |
+
@inproceedings{derwesthuizen-niesler-2018-soap,
|
| 721 |
+
author = {{Van der Westhuizen}, Ewald and Niesler, Thomas},
|
| 722 |
+
title = {A First {S}outh {A}frican Corpus of Multilingual Code-switched
|
| 723 |
+
Soap Opera Speech},
|
| 724 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
|
| 725 |
+
Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
|
| 726 |
+
year = {2018},
|
| 727 |
+
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
|
| 728 |
+
publisher = {European Language Resources Association ({ELRA})},
|
| 729 |
+
}
|
| 730 |
+
```
|
| 731 |
+
|
| 732 |
+
</details>
|
| 733 |
+
|
| 734 |
+
<details>
|
| 735 |
+
<summary><b>Modipa et al., 2015 — SPCS (Code-Switched)</b></summary>
|
| 736 |
+
|
| 737 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 738 |
+
@inproceedings{modipa-etal-2015-spcs,
|
| 739 |
+
author = {Modipa, T. I. and Davel, M. H. and De Wet, F.},
|
| 740 |
+
title = {Implications of {S}epedi/{E}nglish Code Switching for {ASR} Systems},
|
| 741 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition Association of
|
| 742 |
+
{S}outh {A}frica ({PRASA})},
|
| 743 |
+
pages = {112--117},
|
| 744 |
+
year = {2015},
|
| 745 |
+
}
|
| 746 |
+
```
|
| 747 |
+
|
| 748 |
+
</details>
|
| 749 |
+
|
| 750 |
+
|
| 751 |
+
#### 📄 Original SLID Datasets Citation
|
| 752 |
+
|
| 753 |
+
<details>
|
| 754 |
+
<summary><b>Doumbouya et al., 2021 — Nicolingua (0003)</b></summary>
|
| 755 |
+
|
| 756 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 757 |
+
@inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua,
|
| 758 |
+
author = {Doumbouya, Moussa and Einstein, Lisa and Piech, Chris},
|
| 759 |
+
title = {Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition:
|
| 760 |
+
Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users},
|
| 761 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
|
| 762 |
+
volume = {35},
|
| 763 |
+
year = {2021},
|
| 764 |
+
}
|
| 765 |
+
```
|
| 766 |
+
|
| 767 |
+
</details>
|
| 768 |
+
|
| 769 |
+
<details>
|
| 770 |
+
<summary><b>The Brick House Cooperative, 2024 — OlongoAfrica</b></summary>
|
| 771 |
+
|
| 772 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 773 |
+
@misc{olongoafrica-2024,
|
| 774 |
+
author = {{The Brick House Cooperative}},
|
| 775 |
+
title = {{OlongoAfrica} Multilingual Anthology},
|
| 776 |
+
year = {2024},
|
| 777 |
+
howpublished = {\url{https://lingua.olongoafrica.com/}},
|
| 778 |
+
note = {A collection of translated and narrated short stories
|
| 779 |
+
in various African languages, including Edo, Tamazight,
|
| 780 |
+
Yoruba, Swahili, Hausa, Tiv, Shona, Ibibio, Igbo,
|
| 781 |
+
and Nigerian Pidgin},
|
| 782 |
+
}
|
| 783 |
+
```
|
| 784 |
+
|
| 785 |
+
</details>
|
| 786 |
+
|
| 787 |
+
<details>
|
| 788 |
+
<summary><b>UDHR Audio, 2025 — UDHR</b></summary>
|
| 789 |
+
|
| 790 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 791 |
+
@misc{udhr-audio-2025,
|
| 792 |
+
author = {{Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio}},
|
| 793 |
+
title = {Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio Project},
|
| 794 |
+
year = {2025},
|
| 795 |
+
howpublished = {\url{https://udhr.audio/}},
|
| 796 |
+
note = {Audio recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human
|
| 797 |
+
Rights in multiple languages},
|
| 798 |
+
}
|
| 799 |
+
```
|
| 800 |
+
|
| 801 |
+
</details>
|
| 802 |
+
|
| 803 |
+
<details>
|
| 804 |
+
<summary><b>Elmadany et al., 2025 — Voice of Africa (VOA)</b></summary>
|
| 805 |
+
|
| 806 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 807 |
+
@inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-simba,
|
| 808 |
+
author = {Elmadany, AbdelRahim and Kwon, Sang Yun and
|
| 809 |
+
Toyin, Hawau Olamide and Inciarte, Alcides Alcoba and
|
| 810 |
+
Aldarmaki, Hanan and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad},
|
| 811 |
+
title = {Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica's Speech
|
| 812 |
+
Technology Frontier},
|
| 813 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods
|
| 814 |
+
in Natural Language Processing},
|
| 815 |
+
pages = {11028--11050},
|
| 816 |
+
year = {2025},
|
| 817 |
+
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
|
| 818 |
+
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559},
|
| 819 |
+
}
|
| 820 |
+
```
|
| 821 |
+
|
| 822 |
+
</details>
|
| 823 |
+
|
| 824 |
+
<details>
|
| 825 |
+
<summary><b>Valk & Alumäe, 2021 — VoxLingua</b></summary>
|
| 826 |
+
|
| 827 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 828 |
+
@inproceedings{valk-alumae-2021-voxlingua,
|
| 829 |
+
author = {Valk, Jörgen and Alumäe, Tanel},
|
| 830 |
+
title = {{VoxLingua107}: A Dataset for Spoken Language Recognition},
|
| 831 |
+
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Spoken Language Technology
|
| 832 |
+
Workshop ({SLT})},
|
| 833 |
+
year = {2021},
|
| 834 |
+
}
|
| 835 |
+
```
|
| 836 |
+
|
| 837 |
+
</details>
|
| 838 |
+
|
| 839 |
+
<details>
|
| 840 |
+
<summary><b>Sikasote et al., 2023 — Zambezi Voice (Audio Only)</b></summary>
|
| 841 |
+
|
| 842 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 843 |
+
@inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi,
|
| 844 |
+
author = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly
|
| 845 |
+
and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin
|
| 846 |
+
and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios},
|
| 847 |
+
title = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages},
|
| 848 |
+
booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023},
|
| 849 |
+
pages = {3984--3988},
|
| 850 |
+
year = {2023},
|
| 851 |
+
}
|
| 852 |
+
```
|
| 853 |
+
|
| 854 |
+
</details>
|
| 855 |
+
|
| 856 |
+
|
| 857 |
+
#### 📄 Original TTS Datasets Citation
|
| 858 |
+
|
| 859 |
+
<details>
|
| 860 |
+
<summary><b>Meyer et al., 2022 — BibleTTS</b></summary>
|
| 861 |
+
|
| 862 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 863 |
+
@inproceedings{meyer-etal-2022-bibletts,
|
| 864 |
+
author = {Meyer, Josh and Adelani, David and Casanova, Edresson
|
| 865 |
+
and Öktem, Alp and Whitenack, Daniel and Weber, Julian
|
| 866 |
+
and {Kabongo Kabenamualu}, Salomon and Salesky, Elizabeth
|
| 867 |
+
and Orife, Iroro and Leong, Colin and Ogayo, Perez
|
| 868 |
+
and {Chinenye Emezue}, Chris and Mukiibi, Jonathan
|
| 869 |
+
and Osei, Salomey and Agbolo, Apelete and Akinode, Victor
|
| 870 |
+
and Opoku, Bernard and Samuel, Olanrewaju and Alabi, Jesujoba
|
| 871 |
+
and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan},
|
| 872 |
+
title = {{BibleTTS}: A Large, High-Fidelity, Multilingual, and
|
| 873 |
+
Uniquely {A}frican Speech Corpus},
|
| 874 |
+
booktitle = {Interspeech 2022},
|
| 875 |
+
pages = {2383--2387},
|
| 876 |
+
year = {2022},
|
| 877 |
+
address = {Incheon, Korea},
|
| 878 |
+
publisher = {ISCA},
|
| 879 |
+
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10850},
|
| 880 |
+
}
|
| 881 |
+
```
|
| 882 |
+
|
| 883 |
+
</details>
|
| 884 |
+
|
| 885 |
+
<details>
|
| 886 |
+
<summary><b>van Niekerk et al., 2017 — High-Quality TTS (SA)</b></summary>
|
| 887 |
+
|
| 888 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 889 |
+
@inproceedings{vanniekerk-etal-2017-hqtts,
|
| 890 |
+
author = {van Niekerk, Daniel and van Heerden, Charl and Davel, Marelie
|
| 891 |
+
and Kleynhans, Neil and Kjartansson, Oddur and Jansche, Martin
|
| 892 |
+
and Ha, Linne},
|
| 893 |
+
title = {Rapid Development of {TTS} Corpora for Four {S}outh {A}frican Languages},
|
| 894 |
+
booktitle = {Interspeech 2017},
|
| 895 |
+
pages = {2178--2182},
|
| 896 |
+
year = {2017},
|
| 897 |
+
address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
|
| 898 |
+
publisher = {ISCA},
|
| 899 |
+
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1139},
|
| 900 |
+
}
|
| 901 |
+
```
|
| 902 |
+
|
| 903 |
+
</details>
|
| 904 |
+
|
| 905 |
+
<details>
|
| 906 |
+
<summary><b>Digital Umuganda, 2023 — Kinyarwanda TTS</b></summary>
|
| 907 |
+
|
| 908 |
+
```bibtex
|
| 909 |
+
@misc{digitalumuganda-2023-kinyarwanda,
|
| 910 |
+
author = {{Digital Umuganda}},
|
| 911 |
+
title = {{AfriSpeech} {K}inyarwanda Male and Female {TTS} Datasets},
|
| 912 |
+
year = {2023},
|
| 913 |
+
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/DigitalUmuganda/afrispeak_kinyarwanda_male_tts_dataset}},
|
| 914 |
+
}
|
| 915 |
```
|
| 916 |
|
| 917 |
+
</details>
|
| 918 |
|