UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset

from datasets import load_dataset

data = load_dataset("UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset", "asr_test_afr")

DatasetDict({
    test: Dataset({
        features: ['split', 'benchmark_id', 'audio', 'text', 'duration_s', 'lang_iso3', 'lang_name'],
        num_rows: 1000
    })
})

data['test'][0]

{'split': 'test',
 'benchmark_id': 'afr_Lwazi_afr_test_idx3889',
 'audio': {'path': None,
  'array': array([ 4.27246094e-04,  7.62939453e-04,  6.71386719e-04, ...,
         -3.05175781e-04, -2.13623047e-04, -6.10351562e-05]),
  'sampling_rate': 16000},
 'text': 'watter, verontwaardiging sou daar, in ons binneste gewees het?',
 'duration_s': 5.119999885559082,
 'lang_iso3': 'afr',
 'lang_name': 'Afrikaans'}

@inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-voice,
    title = "Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica{'}s Speech Technology Frontier",
    author = "Elmadany, AbdelRahim A.  and
      Kwon, Sang Yun  and
      Toyin, Hawau Olamide  and
      Alcoba Inciarte, Alcides  and
      Aldarmaki, Hanan  and
      Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
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    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
}

@misc{besacier-gauthier-2023-alffa,
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@misc{mozilla-2023-commonvoice,
  author       = {{Mozilla Foundation}},
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@misc{asamoahowusu-etal-2022-financialspeech,
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@misc{naijavoices-2024,
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@inproceedings{doumbouya-etal-2021-nicolingua,
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@misc{olongoafrica-2024,
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@misc{udhr-audio-2025,
  author       = {{Universal Declaration of Human Rights Audio}},
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  year         = {2025},
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@inproceedings{elmadany-etal-2025-simba,
  author    = {Elmadany, AbdelRahim and Kwon, Sang Yun and
               Toyin, Hawau Olamide and Inciarte, Alcides Alcoba and
               Aldarmaki, Hanan and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad},
  title     = {Voice of a Continent: Mapping {A}frica's Speech
               Technology Frontier},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods
               in Natural Language Processing},
  pages     = {11028--11050},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.559},
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@inproceedings{valk-alumae-2021-voxlingua,
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@inproceedings{sikasote-etal-2023-zambezi,
  author    = {Sikasote, Claytone and Siaminwe, Kalinda and Mwape, Stanly
               and Zulu, Bangiwe and Phiri, Mofya and Phiri, Martin
               and Zulu, David and Nyirenda, Mayumbo and Anastasopoulos, Antonios},
  title     = {{Zambezi Voice}: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for {Z}ambian Languages},
  booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2023},
  pages     = {3984--3988},
  year      = {2023},
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@inproceedings{meyer-etal-2022-bibletts,
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@inproceedings{vanniekerk-etal-2017-hqtts,
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@misc{digitalumuganda-2023-kinyarwanda,
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}