TWB Voice 1.0 - Kanuri ASR Subset

Kanuri(kau)SpeechASRWest Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Kanuri (kau)

Modality

Speech

Domain

General

Size

Institution

CLEAR Global

Last Updated

3 Jun 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierother

Restricted — review the source terms before use.

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Medium risk

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iso code: kau
Dataset name: TWB Voice 1.0 - Kanuri ASR Subset
Modality: Speech
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/CLEAR-Global/TWB-Voice-1.0
NLP Task: ASR
Domain: General
Data Format: parquet
Size Metric: Hours
Size Value: 52
License: other
Open Access: Restricted
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2024
Creator/Author(s): CLEAR Global
Funder/Partner: TWB
Dialect Coverage: Dialectal
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: Yes
PII Risk: Medium
Consent Verified: Yes
Verified By: Gideon George
Date Indexed: 2026-06-03
Notes / Flags: Kanuri subset contains approximately 52 hours and 27,723 recordings; collected from native speakers with consent; source identifies the variety as Central Kanur…

Quality (DQI) (7/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: Not stated
Redistribution Allowed?: Restricted
Content Hash: 00fbe6f79c1986995a5668c196506b23133b9b48derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By: hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date: 2026-06-03
Last Updated Date: 2025-08-07derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?: Not stated
IAA Score: Not stated
Cleaning Notes: Not stated
Benchmark Exists?: Yes
Benchmark Citation: https://huggingface.co/CLEAR-Global/w2v-bert-2.0-clearglobal-kanuri-asr-1.0.0

Representativeness (DRI) (4/7)

Gender Distribution: Not stated
Region Coverage: Cameroon, Chad, Niger
Region Distribution: Not stated
Age Range Coverage: Not stated
Register: Spoken
Marginalized Group Note: Yes: This dataset was created as part of the TWB Voice project by CLEAR Global (formerly Translators without Borders) to support automatic speech recognition (A…derivedHugging Face card: "This dataset was created as part of the TWB Voice project by CLEAR Global (formerly Translators without Borders) to support automatic speech recognition (ASR) development for underrepresented languag…"
Demographic Fields Reported Count: 1