Lwazi III  isiZulu TTS Corpus

Title	Lwazi III isiZulu TTS Corpus
Description	Complete audio recordings with orthographic transcriptions. TTS corpus for standard SA dialect. This corpus was created to enable the building of a TTS voice.
Contact name	Karen Calteaux
Contact email	KCalteaux@csir.co.za
Publisher(s)	Meraka Institute, CSIR
License	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Language(s)	isiZulu
Author(s)	Aby Louw; Georg Schlünz
Contributor	Georg Schlünz; Aby Louw; Tebogo Reid
Citation	Lwazi III Project Final Report "Operational Deployment of Indigenous Text-to-Speech Systems"
URI	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/269
ISLRN	606-485-046-642-1
Media type	Speech
Type	Data
Media category	Multilingual speech corpora: annotated
Format extent	1.60 Gb (zipped)
Version	1
Format size	isiZulu 1708 / 05h58m; English (South African) 638 / 00h55m; Afrikaans 61 / 00h04m; isiXhosa 169 / 00h09m; Sepedi 138 / 00h07m; Setswana 80 / 00h04m
Project	Lwazi III
Source	Books; Government Documents; Periodicals; Studio recordings; Web
Stratum	Sentences that provide diphone coverage from the reference texts as well as sentences that add linguistic context for acoustic naturalness. Out of language sentences to provide phone coverage of other languages.
Primary collection	Resource Catalogue
Secondary collection	Resource Index
ISO639 code	zul
Submit date	2018-02-06T10:02:02Z; 2018-03-05T15:06:37Z
Date available	2018-02-06T10:02:02Z; 2018-03-05T15:06:37Z
Date created	2016-06-17

Resource Catalogue [349]
A collection of language resources available for download from the RMA of SADiLaR. The collection mostly consists of resources developed with funding from the Department of Arts and Culture.
Resource Index [411]
A collection of language resource metadata mostly collected during the NHN funded technology audit of 2009, as well as the SADiLaR technology audit of 2018. Not all resources in this collection are available for download.