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500-hour Chichewa speech collection
An ambitious data foundation for Chichewa speech technology.
Project overview
An ongoing Chichewa speech collection effort associated with Masakhane targeting 500 hours of transcribed audio. The work covers recording protocols, speaker metadata, transcription guidance and quality assurance to address the shortage of documented speech resources.
Status, limitations and credit
500 hours is a project target, not a claim about the amount already collected. Project attribution, collaboration arrangements and public release terms are subject to approval.
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