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WAXAL speech dataset

WAXAL is a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset covering 27 Sub-Saharan African languages spoken by over 100 million speakers, with approximately 1,846 hours of transcribed natural speech for ASR and over 565 hours of high-fidelity recordings for TTS, released under CC-BY-4.0.

Google Research | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Google Research, WAXAL: A large-scale open resource for African language speech technology

Added to The Deploy Log Tuesday 15 Sep 2026, updated Thursday 17 Sep 2026. Read Edition 24, the edition that carried it.

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