Lwazi isiXhosa ASR corpus

Title	Lwazi isiXhosa ASR corpus
Description	Complete audio recordings and orthographic transcriptions used for Lwazi speech recognition systems.
Contact name	Jaco Badenhorst
Contact email	jbadenhorst@csir.co.za
Publisher(s)	Meraka Institute, CSIR
License	Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/legalcode
Language(s)	isiXhosa
Author(s)	Charl van Heerden; Etienne Barnard; Jaco Badenhorst; Marelie Davel
Citation	E. Barnard, M. Davel and C. van Heerden, "ASR Corpus Design for Resource-Scarce Languages," in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Brighton, United Kingdom, September 2009, pp. 2847-2850.
URI	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/460
ISLRN	127-860-406-553-5
Media type	Speech
Type	Data
Media category	Monolingual speech corpora: Annotated
Format extent	553 Mb (unzipped)
Version	1
Format size	9:21:34
Format medium	Transcriptions: a) One utterance per file b) ANSI (Unicode) c) txt Audio: a) 8 KHz b) 16-bit c) 1 Channel; telephone d) wav
Project	Lwazi
Source	Books; Government Documents; Periodicals; Web
Stratum	210 speakers (~14 elicited utterances, ~16 phonetically balanced read sentences).
Primary collection	Resource Catalogue
Secondary collection	Resource Index
ISO639 code	xho
Submit date	2018-02-05T20:23:27Z; 2018-03-05T17:56:03Z
Date available	2018-02-05T20:23:27Z; 2018-03-05T17:56:03Z
Date created	2013-04-02

Resource Catalogue [335]
A collection of language resources available for download from the RMA of SADiLaR. The collection mostly consists of resources developed with funding from the Department of Arts and Culture.
Resource Index [386]
A collection of language resource metadata mostly collected during the NHN funded technology audit of 2009, as well as the SADiLaR technology audit of 2018. Not all resources in this collection are available for download.