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afrikaans-30s
Afrikaans Speech Dataset for Whisper Fine-Tuning
Dataset Card
Dataset Summary
This dataset consists of approximately 56 hours of Afrikaans speech extracted from church sermons, paired with cleaned and aligned transcripts. It is specifically prepared for fine-tuning multilingual ASR models like OpenAI's Whisper (particularly large-v3) on low-resource Afrikaans speech
The audio is segmented into fixed 30-second chunks (with 3-second overlaps for context… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/andreoosthuizen/afrikaans-30s.openslr-32-hq-SA-languages-Afrikaans
High quality TTS data for four South African languages - Afrikaans
Source - https://openslr.org/32/
Identifier: SLR32
Summary: Multi-speaker TTS data for four South African languages - Afrikaans
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
About this resource:
This data set contains multi-speaker high quality transcribed audio data for four languages of South Africa. The data set consists of wave files, and a TSV file transcribing the audio.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/voice-biomarkers/openslr-32-hq-SA-languages-Afrikaans.nichevault-afrikaans-asr-sample
NicheVault Afrikaans ASR — Free Sample
Overview
NicheVault Afrikaans ASR — Free Sample is a 20-clip preview of a 61.5-hour Whisper-ready Afrikaans ASR training dataset. Every clip is 16kHz mono WAV with a human-verified sentence-level transcript, formatted as JSONL metadata. All clips are pure CC BY — no ShareAlike, no copyleft obligations.
This sample is drawn from 20 clips across the full dataset's train/validation/test splits. It is provided unauthenticated… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NicheVault/nichevault-afrikaans-asr-sample.nchlt_speech_afrikaans
NCHLT Speech Corpus -- Afrikaans
This is the Afrikaans language part of the NCHLT Speech Corpus of the South African languages.
Language code (ISO 639): afr
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/280
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… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Max5ive/nchlt_speech_afrikaans.