UGSpeechData - Akan Speech Corpus

Akan(aka)SpeechASR, TTSWest Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Akan (aka)

Modality

Speech

Domain

General

Size

1000

Institution

Isaac Wiafe, Jean-Delvenne Abdulai, Amara O. Ekpezu, Helegah Raynard Dodzi

Last Updated

12 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Open with restrictions — attribution required; some commercial or derivative use limited.

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Low risk

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26 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (22/27)

iso code: aka
Dataset name: UGSpeechData - Akan Speech Corpus
Modality: Speech
Type: literature
Link: https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.22298
NLP Task: ASR, TTS
Domain: General
Data Format: Not stated
Size Metric: Hours
Size Value: 1000
License: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
Open Access: Restricted
Source Repository: GitHub
Year Published: 2023
Creator/Author(s): Isaac Wiafe, Jean-Delvenne Abdulai, Amara O. Ekpezu, Helegah Raynard Dodzi
Funder/Partner: Not stated
Dialect Coverage: Akan
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Researcher
Date Indexed: 2026-05-12
Notes / Flags: Part of 5000-hour multi-language corpus