This data set contains transcribed high-quality audio of Yorubasentences recorded by volunteers. The data set consists of wave files, and a TSV file (line_index.tsv). The file line_index.tsv contains a anonymized FileID and the transcription of audio in the file. The file annotation_info contains information annotations included in the data set.

The data set has been manually quality checked, but there might still be errors.

Please report any issues in the following issue tracker on GitHub.  https://github.com/google/language-resources/issues

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If you use this data in publications, please cite it as follows:

  @inproceedings{gutkin-et-al-yoruba2020,
    title = {{Developing an Open-Source Corpus of Yoruba Speech}},
    author = {Alexander Gutkin and I{\c{s}}{\i}n Demir{\c{s}}ahin and Oddur Kjartansson and Clara Rivera and K\d{\'o}lá Túb\d{\`o}sún},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2020},
    pages = {404--408},
    month = {October},
    year = {2020},
    address = {Shanghai, China},
    publisher = {International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA)},
    doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1096},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1096},
  }