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BembaSpeech

Bemba(bem)SpeechASREast Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Bemba (bem)
Modality
Speech
Domain
General
Size
24
Institution
"Claytone Sikasote; Antonios Anastasopoulos"
Last Updated
5 Jun 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

27 of 46 fields stated

Every column the registry tracks. Values marked derivedwere filled by a rule or read from the source's text rather than stated in its metadata; the rule or the quoted sentence is shown under the value.

Registry columns (23/27)

iso code
bem
Dataset name
BembaSpeech
Modality
Speech
Type
dataset
Link
https://github.com/csikasote/BembaSpeech
NLP Task
ASR
Domain
General
Data Format
Not stated
Size Metric
Hours
Size Value
24
License
CC-BY
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
GitHub
Year Published
2021
Creator/Author(s)
"Claytone Sikasote; Antonios Anastasopoulos"
Funder/Partner
"University of Zambia; GMU"
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
Yes
PII Risk
Low
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Ronke
Date Indexed
2026-06-05
Notes / Flags
"Read speech corpus for Bemba ASR"

Quality (DQI) (3/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
Not stated
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
Not stated
Submitted By
LanAfrica pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-06-05
Last Updated Date
Not stated
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (1/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Not stated
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation86%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://github.com/csikasote/BembaSpeech
Fetch Timestamp
5 Jun 2026
Content Hash
—

Audit Log

Record indexed from GitHub

5 Jun 2026

Source status: Active

5 Jun 2026

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