CSRC
● liveCongolese Speech Radio Corpus — unlabelled radio archives for self-supervised pretraining and acoustic adaptation.
Language
Lingala · Kikongo · Tshiluba
Type · Size
audio · radio · 10K–100K samples
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Every release lives on Hugging Face under BantuLanguagesInitiative. Source code and pipelines on GitHub. Standards documented and enforced.
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- Code 03
- GitHub · Open
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- 2026
/ 01 · Catalogue
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LRSC
● liveLingala Read Speech Corpus — the labelled Lingala read-speech subset, packaged to load directly with the Hugging Face datasets library.
Language
Lingala
Type · Size
audio + transcript · 1K–10K samples
/ 02 · How to contribute
Quality standards.
We'd rather have one well-documented dataset than ten unusable scrapes. Every contribution is held to the same bar.
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Document the source.
Every dataset ships with a data sheet: provenance, collection method, consent, known biases.
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Make it reproducible.
Cleaning and processing scripts live in the public repo. Anyone can rerun the pipeline.
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License for reuse.
Default to CC-BY-4.0. If a more restrictive license is needed, we explain why on the dataset card.
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Credit contributors.
Contributors are named on the dataset page. Communities providing data are consulted and acknowledged.