oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2026S01
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| Title: | MATERIAL Swahili-English Language Pack | |
| Access Rights: | Licensing Instructions for Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/obtaining | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Amott, Nicola, et al. MATERIAL Swahili-English Language Pack LDC2026S01. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2026 | |
| Contributor: | Amott, Nicola | |
| Bills, Aric | ||
| Bishop, Judith | ||
| Boyle, Anne | ||
| Chouder, Sarra | ||
| Clair, Nathaniel | ||
| Conners, Tom | ||
| Corey, Cassian | ||
| Dubinski, Eyal | ||
| Ellis, Corinna | ||
| Gibby, Paul | ||
| Hammond, Simon | ||
| Hartwig, Luke | ||
| Hubert, Maxime | ||
| Lusweti, Vivian | ||
| Magembe, Tina Semiti | ||
| Novak, Valerie | ||
| Oluoch, Maureen | ||
| Onyango, Cynthia | ||
| Yahuma, Bella | ||
| Yelle, Julie | ||
| Yu, Jennifer | ||
| Zavorin, Ilya | ||
| Date (W3CDTF): | 2026 | |
| Date Issued (W3CDTF): | 2026-01-15 | |
| Description: | *Introduction* MATERIAL Swahili-English Language Pack was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. It contains approximately 112 hours of Swahili conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations and queries. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. *Data* The Swahili speech in this release represents that spoken in the Nairobi dialect region of Kenya. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 69 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle. Transcripts cover approximately 30% of the speech data, and approximately 3% of the speech data was translated into English. Further information about transcription and translation methodologies is contained in the documentation accompanying this release. Swahili-English Language Pack also includes domain annotations, English queries and their relevance annotations. Speech data is presented either as two channel wav or single channel sphere files, predominately in 8kHz A-law format. Some files are 48kHz and single channel. All text data is UTF-8 encoded. *Samples* Please view these samples: * Audio Samples (WAV) * Swahili Transcription Sample (TXT) * English Translation Sample (TXT) *Updates* No updates at this time. | |
| Extent: | Corpus size: 11673808 KB | |
| Format: | Sampling Rate: 8000 | |
| Sampling Format: alaw | ||
| Identifier: | LDC2026S01 | |
| https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S01 | ||
| ISLRN: 740-824-029-409-4 | ||
| DOI: 10.35111/h4s6-3y31 | ||
| Language: | English | |
| Swahili (macrolanguage); Swahili | ||
| Language (ISO639): | eng | |
| swa | ||
| License: | MATERIAL Swahili-English Agreement (For-Profit): https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/material-swahili-english-agreement-for-profit.pdf | |
| MATERIAL Swahili-English Agreement (Non-Member): https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/material-swahili-english-agreement-non-member.pdf | ||
| MATERIAL Swahili-English Agreement (Not-For-Profit): https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/material-swahili-english-agreement-not-for-profit.pdf | ||
| Medium: | Distribution: Web Download | |
| Publisher: | Linguistic Data Consortium | |
| Publisher (URI): | https://www.ldc.upenn.edu | |
| Relation (URI): | https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/docs/LDC2026S01 | |
| Rights Holder: | Portions © 2026 U.S. Government, © 2026 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | |
| Subject: | Swahili (macrolanguage) | |
| Subject (ISO639): | swa | |
| Type (DCMI): | Sound | |
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| Type (OLAC): | primary_text | |
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| Archive: | The LDC Corpus Catalog | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.ldc.upenn.edu | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2026S01 | |
| DateStamp: | 2026-01-15 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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| Citation: | Amott, Nicola; Bills, Aric; Bishop, Judith; Boyle, Anne; Chouder, Sarra; Clair, Nathaniel; Conners, Tom; Corey, Cassian; Dubinski, Eyal; Ellis, Corinna; Gibby, Paul; Hammond, Simon; Hartwig, Luke; Hubert, Maxime; Lusweti, Vivian; Magembe, Tina Semiti; Novak, Valerie; Oluoch, Maureen; Onyango, Cynthia; Yahuma, Bella; Yelle, Julie; Yu, Jennifer; Zavorin, Ilya. 2026. Linguistic Data Consortium. | |
| Terms: | area_Europe country_GB dcmi_Sound dcmi_Text iso639_eng iso639_swa olac_primary_text | |
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