AfriSpeech/afri2universal
Afri2Universal: Universalized Multilingual African Speech Corpus (314 Languages) Afri2Universal is a large-scale, phonetically universalized speech recognition dataset spanning 314 African languages and dialects, totaling over 950 hours of audio balanced across 4 major African language families (Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan). The dataset is orthographically regularized into a 26-character universal latin script (lowercase a-z, stripped of punctuation and… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/AfriSpeech/afri2universal.
| Author / organization | AfriSpeech |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 0 (as reported by Hugging Face) |
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| Created | 18 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 18 October 2026 |
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- 18 Oct 2026 License: cc-by-nc-4.0 → none
- 18 Oct 2026 Description: none → Afri2Universal: Universalized Multilingual African Speech Corpus (314 Languages) Afri2Universal is a large-scale, phonetically universalized speech recognition dataset spanning 314 African languages and dialects, totaling over 950 hours of
- 18 Oct 2026 Topics added task_categories:automatic-speech-recognition removed speech, asr, wav2vec2, lora, fairseq2, african-languages, universal-orthography, afri2universal, automatic-speech-recognition
- 18 Oct 2026 Task: automatic-speech-recognition → none
- 18 Oct 2026 License: none → cc-by-nc-4.0
- 18 Oct 2026 Topics added speech, asr, wav2vec2, lora, fairseq2, african-languages, universal-orthography, afri2universal, automatic-speech-recognition removed task_categories:automatic-speech-recognition
- 18 Oct 2026 Task: none → automatic-speech-recognition
- 18 Oct 2026 License: cc-by-nc-4.0 → none
- 18 Oct 2026 Description: none → Afri2Universal: Universalized Multilingual African Speech Corpus (314 Languages) Afri2Universal is a large-scale, phonetically universalized speech recognition dataset spanning 314 African languages and dialects, totaling over 950 hours of
- 18 Oct 2026 Topics added task_categories:automatic-speech-recognition removed speech, asr, wav2vec2, lora, fairseq2, african-languages, universal-orthography, afri2universal, automatic-speech-recognition
- 18 Oct 2026 Task: automatic-speech-recognition → none
- 18 Oct 2026 License: none → cc-by-nc-4.0
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