voiceafrica datasets

Central Kanuri(knc)SpeechASRWest Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Central Kanuri (knc)

Modality

Speech

Domain

General

Size

10K<n<100K n (samples)

Institution

naijavoices

Last Updated

9 Jul 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-nc-sa-4.0

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

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

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Registry columns (24/27)

iso code: knc
Dataset name: voiceafrica datasets
Modality: Speech
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/naijavoices/voiceafrica-datasets
NLP Task: ASR
Domain: General
Data Format: parquet
Size Metric: Hours
Size Value: 10K<n<100K n (samples)
License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2026
Creator/Author(s): naijavoices
Funder/Partner: Meta
Dialect Coverage: Mixed
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: 118derivedHugging Face card: "The dataset contains ~125 hours of speech (about 10 hours per language) across 16,383 audio samples from 118 speakers in four countries."
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-07-09
Notes / Flags: Hugging Face dataset tagged for Central Kanuri. This may be a broad multilingual resource rather than a language-specific corpus.

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?: Yes
Content Hash: 8e1e831d003a502df1f29c8986dd060585a21895derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By: hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date: 2026-07-09
Last Updated Date: 2026-08-25derivedHugging 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: Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal
Region Distribution: Not stated
Age Range Coverage: Not stated
Register: Not stated
Marginalized Group Note: Yes: VoiceAfrica is a Lanfrica–Meta collaboration (code-named VoiceAfrica 1) that set out to create authentic, conversational speech and expert-curated transcri…derivedHugging Face card: "VoiceAfrica is a Lanfrica–Meta collaboration (code-named VoiceAfrica 1) that set out to create authentic, conversational speech and expert-curated transcriptions for 11 under-represented African lang…"
Demographic Fields Reported Count: 1