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. In each folder, the file line_index.tsv contains a FileID, which in turn contains the UserID and the Transcription of audio in the file.
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The data set has had some quality checks, but there might still be errors.
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This data set was collected by as a collaboration between North West University and Google.
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See LICENSE.txt file for license information.
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Copyright 2017 Google, Inc.
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If you use this data in publications, please cite it as follows:
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  @inproceedings{van-niekerk-etal-2017,
    title = {{Rapid development of TTS corpora for four South African languages}},
    author = {Daniel van Niekerk and Charl van Heerden and Marelie Davel and Neil Kleynhans and Oddur Kjartansson and Martin Jansche and Linne Ha},
    booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2017},
    pages = {2178--2182},
    address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
    month = aug,
    year  = {2017},
    URL   = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1139}
  }
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