# Google Research — WAXAL: A large-scale open resource for African language speech technology

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-06T20:06:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- License: CC-BY-4.0
- Source: https://research.google/blog/waxal-a-large-scale-open-resource-for-african-language-speech-technology/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1362-waxal-a-large-scale-open-resource-for-african-language-speech-technology

Google Research introduces WAXAL, a large-scale open-access speech dataset for 27 Sub-Saharan African languages, featuring approximately 1,846 hours of ASR data and over 565 hours of TTS data, released under a CC-BY-4.0 license to support African speech technology.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/waxal-a-large-scale-open-resource-for-african-language-speech-technology/:

> WAXAL provides a critical, open-access foundation for African speech technology. Featuring a large corpus of ASR and TTS data for 27 native languages under a highly permissive license, WAXAL empowers the African AI ecosystem to build robust speech systems that better reflect the region's unique linguistic diversity.

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