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Swivuriso: The South African Next Voices Multilingual Speech Dataset

arXiv 2512.02201 ↗First posted 1 Dec 2025cs.CLcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper introduces Swivuriso, a 3000-hour multilingual speech dataset developed as part of the African Next Voices project, to support the development and benchmarking of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies in seven South African languages. Covering agriculture, healthcare, and general domain topics, Swivuriso addresses significant gaps in existing ASR datasets. We describe the design principles, ethical considerations, and data collection procedures that guided the dataset creation. We present baseline results of training/finetuning ASR models with this data and compare to other ASR datasets for the langauges concerned.

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  1. 2026Sequential Adapter Stacking for Cross-Lingual Low-Resource ASRcited by 1
  2. 2026Tone-Conditioned Curriculum Learning for Low-Resource Bantu Speech Recognitioncited by 0
  3. 2026From Monolingual to Multilingual: Evaluating Mamba for ASR in South African Languagescited by 0