README.md

---
license: cc-by-3.0
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: age
    dtype: string
  - name: gender
    dtype: string
  - name: speaker_id
    dtype: string
  - name: duration
    dtype: string
  - name: pdp_score
    dtype: string
  - name: utterance_id
    dtype: string
  - name: disfluency
    dtype: bool
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: typos
    dtype: bool
  - name: split
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 3991040604.688
    num_examples: 56284
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 169203688.883
    num_examples: 2829
  download_size: 3256380706
  dataset_size: 4160244293.571
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
pretty_name: NCHLT Speech Corpus -- Sepedi
---
# NCHLT Speech Corpus -- Sepedi

This is the Sepedi language part of the NCHLT Speech Corpus of the South African languages.

Language code (ISO 639): `nso`

URI: <https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/270>

## Licence:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0): <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode>

## Attribution:

The Department of Arts and Culture of the government of the Republic of South Africa (DAC), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and North-West University (NWU).

## Citation Information:

```
@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},
  booktitle={Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU)},
  year={2014}
}
```