README.md

---
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)}
```