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OpenSLR 25: ASR data for Amharic, Swahili and Wolof

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## Adding a Dataset
- **Name:** *SLR25*
- **Description:** *Subset 25 from OpenSLR. Other subsets have been added to https://huggingface.co/datasets/openslr, 25 covers Amharic, Swahili and Wolof data*
- **Paper:** *https://www.openslr.org/25/ has citations for each of the three subsubsets. *
- **Data:** *Currently the three links to the .tar.bz2 files can be found a thttps://www.openslr.org/25/*
- **Motivation:** *Increase ASR data for underrepresented African languages. Also, other subsets of OpenSLR speech recognition have been uploaded, so this would be easy.*

https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/datasets/openslr/openslr.py already has been created for various other OpenSLR subsets, this should be relatively straightforward to do.

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