NCHLT Siswati Speech Corpus
| Title | NCHLT Siswati Speech Corpus |
| Description | Orthographically transcribed broadband speech corpus of approximately 56 hours, including a test suite of 8 speakers. |
| Contact name | Karen Calteaux |
| Contact email | KCalteaux@csir.co.za |
| Publisher(s) | Meraka Institute, CSIR; North-West University |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode |
| Language(s) | Siswati |
| Author(s) | Charl van Heerden; Etienne Barnard; Jaco Badenhorst; Marelie Davel; Alta de Waal |
| Contributor | Willem Basson; Nic de Vries; Febe de Wet; Thipe Modipa; Gehard van Huyssteen |
| Citation | N.J. de Vries, M.H. Davel, J. Badenhorst, W.D. Basson, F. de Wet, E. Barnard and A. de Waal, "A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages", Speech Communication, Volume 56, January 2014, pp 119–131. |
| URI | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/271 |
| ISLRN | 360-410-668-873-5 |
| Media type | Speech |
| Type | Data |
| Media category | Monolingual speech corpora: Annotated |
| Format extent | 4.5 Gb |
| Version | 1 |
| Format size | 2.34375 |
| Format medium | UTF8; 16 kHz; 16 bit |
| Project | NCHLT Speech |
| Source | Audio recordings smartphone-collected in non-studio environment; Text prompts from various sources, predominantly from .gov.za (web) |
| Stratum | 197 speakers (96 female/101 male). Prompted speech (3-5 word utterances read from a smartphone screen). |
| Database | Monolingual Speech Corpora: Annotated |
| Primary collection | Resource Catalogue |
| Secondary collection | Resource Index |
| ISO639 code | ssw |
| Submit date | 2018-02-06T09:42:19Z; 2018-03-05T15:17:49Z |
| Date available | 2018-02-06T09:42:19Z; 2018-03-05T15:17:49Z |
| Date created | 2014-07-08 |
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