Datasets

Language

If automated speech recognition (ASR) systems are only built for a small percentage of international languages, the result is a pronounced gap in access to the digital world that is glaring in low- and middle-income contexts globally. Translation, speech recognition, and more datasets enable the promise of digital communication for all.

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Funded datasets
31
Contributing authors
53+
Access & licensing
Open
Domain area
Language
Why it matters

Language and machine learning

Lacuna Fund language datasets create openly accessible text and speech resources that fuel natural language processing technologies in diverse languages across low- and middle-income contexts globally. Explore and download released datasets below.

Locally owned by design

Every dataset here was produced by teams in low- and middle-income contexts and is openly accessible to the international community.
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IgboSynCorp: Dataset for Igbo Natural Language Processing Tasks 

Funded datasets

31 datasets

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