Lwazi isiXhosa TTS corpus
| Title | Lwazi isiXhosa TTS corpus |
| Description | Orthographic and phonemically aligned transcriptions |
| Contact name | Karen Calteaux |
| Contact email | KCalteaux@csir.co.za |
| Publisher(s) | Meraka Institute, CSIR |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/za |
| Language(s) | isiXhosa |
| Author(s) | Daniel van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard; Marelie Davel; Aby Louw; Alta de Waal |
| Citation | Badenhorst, Jaco, Charl van Heerden, Marelie Davel, and Etienne Barnard. "Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages." Language resources and evaluation 45, no. 3 (2011): 289-309 - www.meraka.org.za/lwazi/publications/badenhorst09collecting.pdf? |
| URI | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/462 |
| ISLRN | 116-910-985-978-1 |
| Media type | Speech |
| Type | Data |
| Media category | Monolingual speech corpora: Annotated |
| Format extent | 78Mb (unzipped) |
| Version | 1.2 |
| Format size | 39 mins |
| Format medium | RIFF (Microsoft wav), TXT for orthographic transcriptions (UTF8), Textgrid files for phonemic transcriptions 16 KHz, 16 bits per sample Recording channel: Studio quality (microphone) |
| Project | Lwazi |
| Source | Books; Government Documents; Periodicals; Web |
| Stratum | Phonetically balanced sentences were chosen to ensure adequate phone coverage, from the reference texts |
| Primary collection | Resource Catalogue |
| Secondary collection | Resource Index |
| ISO639 code | xho |
| Submit date | 2018-02-05T20:20:49Z; 2018-03-05T17:56:08Z |
| Date available | 2018-02-05T20:20:49Z; 2018-03-05T17:56:08Z |
| Date created | 2013-03-27 |
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