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SALT (Sunbird African Language Technology)

Acholi(ach)TextMT, ASR, TTSEast Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Acholi (ach)

Modality

Text

Domain

General/Agric/Health

Size

25,000 sentences (text); 5,000 (ASR); 5,000 (TTS)

Institution

Benjamin Akera, Jonathan Mukiibi et al. — Sunbird AI + Makerere University AI Lab

Last Updated

11 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

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Registry columns (24/27)

iso code: ach
Dataset name: SALT (Sunbird African Language Technology)
Modality: Text
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Sunbird/salt
NLP Task: MT, ASR, TTS
Domain: General/Agric/Health
Data Format: parquet
Size Metric: Sentences / Hours
Size Value: 25,000 sentences (text); 5,000 (ASR); 5,000 (TTS)
License: CC-BY
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Benjamin Akera, Jonathan Mukiibi et al. — Sunbird AI + Makerere University AI Lab
Funder/Partner: Masakhane / Makerere / Lacuna Fund
Dialect Coverage: Standard
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Multi-speaker
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-11
Notes / Flags: Sentence IDs map across subsets enabling cross-lingual speech-text mapping

Quality (DQI) (5/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: Not stated
Redistribution Allowed?: Yes
Content Hash: a0ffb52b49cdf7bf69149e5d418655313ffc41f4derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By: hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date: 2026-05-11
Last Updated Date: 2025-05-06derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?: Not stated
IAA Score: Not stated
Cleaning Notes: Not stated
Benchmark Exists?: Not stated
Benchmark Citation: Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (3/7)

Gender Distribution: Not stated
Region Coverage: Uganda
Region Distribution: Not stated
Age Range Coverage: Not stated
Register: Mixed
Marginalized Group Note: Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count: 1

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage100%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation86%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/datasets/Sunbird/salt

Fetch Timestamp

11 May 2026

Content Hash

a0ffb52b49cdf7bf69149e5d418655313ffc41f4

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

11 May 2026

Source status: Active

11 May 2026

Other Copies

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Open26 May 2026

Also Available In

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HUHugging Face

Open8 Jun 2026

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