Table · dataset · 2025
za-african-next-voices
Listed in Hugging Face Datasets
Swivuriso: ZA-African Next Voices Swivuriso is a large-scale multilingual speech dataset targeting over 3000 hours of audio across 7 South African languages.
Description
The dataset is developed to support Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and inclusive speech technologies for low-resource African languages. It combines both scripted and unscripted speech, collected through ethical, community-centered processes.
Dataset Paper: ArXiv - Work in Progress Language Coverage… See the full description on the dataset page: huggingface.co/datasets/dsfsi-anv/za-african-next-voices.
Links
Get the data
- Hugging Face dataset page huggingface.co/datasets/dsfsi-anv/za-african-next-voices ↗
Gated (auto) - request access on the dataset page
landing page · request access · from Hugging Face
Documentation and papers
- arXiv:2512.02201 arxiv.org/abs/2512.02201 ↗
publication · from Hugging Face
Catalogue records · 1
- Hub API huggingface.co/api/datasets/dsfsi-anv/za-african-next-voices ↗
metadata API · from Hugging Face
Topics
- Stated by source
- audio · automatic speech recognition · text
- From keywords
- Computer Science & AI
- Inferred from text
- Audio 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Datasets | dsfsi-anv/za-african-next-voices | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /gated |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:audio | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:text | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:audio | enrichment · Hugging Face | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[task].hf_task:automatic-speech-recognition | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /tags[task_categories:*] |
| created_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /description |
| license | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /tags[license:*] |
| publication_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /id |
| updated_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 |