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WAXAL (West & East African Languages Speech Corpus)

Acholi(ach)SpeechASR, TTSEast Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Acholi (ach)
Modality
Speech
Domain
General
Size
1,250 hrs ASR; 235 hrs TTS (24 languages total)
Institution
Google Research Africa + Makerere University + University of Ghana + Digital Umuganda
Last Updated
11 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

33 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (24/27)

iso code
ach
Dataset name
WAXAL (West & East African Languages Speech Corpus)
Modality
Speech
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/WaxalNLP
NLP Task
ASR, TTS
Domain
General
Data Format
parquet
Size Metric
Hours
Size Value
1,250 hrs ASR; 235 hrs TTS (24 languages total)
License
CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2026
Creator/Author(s)
Google Research Africa + Makerere University + University of Ghana + Digital Umuganda
Funder/Partner
Google + Gates Foundation
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Multi-speaker
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
Yes
PII Risk
Low
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-05-11
Notes / Flags
Developed over 3 years; dataset owned by African partner institutions

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
5f4d8ca24f2b9d168b2ee545f1febaaff4b40580derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-05-11
Last Updated Date
2026-09-01derivedHugging 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
Ghana, Senegal
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%
Documentation86%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/WaxalNLP
Fetch Timestamp
11 May 2026
Content Hash
5f4d8ca24f2b9d168b2ee545f1febaaff4b40580

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

11 May 2026

Source status: Active

11 May 2026

Other Copies

The same resource, also published at these locations. It is counted once.

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Data format: parquet

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Data format: parquet

8 languages15 copiesAcholi(ach)Audioautomatic-speech-recognition, text-to-speech
HUHugging Face
Open27 Oct 2026
dataset

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