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SimbaBench_dataset

Afrikaans(afr)Audioautomatic-speech-recognition, text-to-speech, audio-classificationSouthern Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Afrikaans (afr)
Modality
Audio
Domain
speech (Agric)
Size
100K<n<1M
Institution
UBC-NLP
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

30 of 46 fields stated

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iso code
afr
Dataset name
SimbaBench_dataset
Modality
Audio
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset
NLP Task
automatic-speech-recognition, text-to-speech, audio-classification
Domain
speech (Agric)
Data Format
parquet
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
100K<n<1MderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License
cc-by-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2026
Creator/Author(s)
UBC-NLP
Funder/Partner
Lacuna Fund
Dialect Coverage
Code-switchedderivedHugging Face card: "Van der Westhuizen & Niesler, 2018 — SO (Code-Switched)"
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Not stated
Status
Activederivedupdated or published within 3 years
Has Datasheet
YesderivedHugging Face card: README with a description of 300+ characters
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Data format: parquet

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
d2e09bbeeb5981d913b6f1a3d1a41574ece905c5derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
2026-02-27derivedHugging 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
Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Spoken
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
1

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation80%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
d2e09bbeeb5981d913b6f1a3d1a41574ece905c5

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Active

27 Oct 2026

Also Available In

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