Central Kanuri Speech Dataset
You can access this dataset on HuggingFace. Community-contributed Central Kanuri (kau) speech from Lake Chad Basin contributors, collected through the TWB Voice platform: 3,576 recordings across two workflows — 2,134 read-speech clips and 1,442 freeform spoken answers — with recording-level review status for every clip. Languages knc — Central Kanuri Dataset Structure Recordings are embedded […]
Dholuo Speech Dataset
This is the dataset card for the Utavu Foundation and CLEAR Global TWB Voice pilot. You can access this dataset on HuggingFace. Dataset summary This dataset contains spontaneous Dholuo speech about agriculture. Speakers answered open questions in Dholuo and spoke freely in response. Each recording has a Dholuo transcription. The data was collected through the […]
CLEAR Global Glossaries
In humanitarian response, field workers must communicate important, sometimes life-saving information to those in need. In many cases, the critical link to ensuring affected people understand is the interpreter. However, too often, that link is broken, either because concepts do not translate well into the target language or because the interpreter does not have the […]
Guide – How to hold organizations accountable for their use of digital technology
This guide is intended to support crisis-affected community members to hold humanitarian organizations accountable for their safe and responsible use of digital technology. This technology may be newly developed digital tools or existing tools combined in new ways. It includes innovations in the early stages of development and more mature and established solutions ready to […]
Human-centered technology design in humanitarian action
Making a regular practice of exploring innovative technological solutions to problems and gaps in humanitarian responses offers immense potential for improved and more sustainable service delivery, even as a crisis evolves into a longer-term development phase. To achieve the most positive impact possible, these solutions must be co-created with the people they aim to serve. […]
Annual Report 2024
Read the 2024 Annual Report now. 2024 was a year of maturity for the organization. We are moving toward more sustainable income sources and less dependency on short-term humanitarian funding. This has meant focusing our work. It seemed that the rest of the world started to understand the importance of language data; the rise of […]
TWB Voice Dataset v1.0
Dataset Summary TWB Voice 1.0 is a multilingual speech corpus containing read speech data in three languages from Nigeria: Hausa, Shuwa Arabic, and Kanuri. This dataset was created as part of the TWB Voice project by CLEAR Global (formerly Translators without Borders) to support automatic speech recognition (ASR) development for underrepresented languages. Languages Hausa (hau): […]
Kanuri TTS and ASR models
Voice datasets are structured collections of audio recordings paired with corresponding text transcriptions, metadata, and annotations. These datasets serve as the foundation for training and evaluating speech recognition systems, text-to-speech engines, and other voice-enabled applications. High-quality voice datasets are essential for developing accurate and robust speech technologies. Voice models are machine learning systems trained on […]
Indigenous participation in early warning systems in Bolivia
Indigenous communities in Bolivia want access to practical, actionable and timely early warning systems in a language that they can understand. They are increasingly exposed to a range of climate change-related threats that are reshaping their cultural and spiritual landscapes. In northern Bolivia, the Tacana face wildfires, floods, and droughts, driven by a combination of […]
Annual Report 2023
Changing direction is never very easy; in 2022 we developed a new Direction of Travel, focusing more on developing partnerships and language technology to reach our goal of enabling 4 billion conversations. This is very exciting! And it takes time to make change. This report tells the story of our year, highlighting what we achieved, […]