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Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa) speech data for AI
How much open Northern Sotho speech data exists, where the gaps are, and how to get consented Northern Sotho data collected.
There is no validated open Northern Sotho speech in Common Voice yet. Northern Sotho is one of 163 Common Voice languages with zero validated hours, so almost any Northern Sotho speech data has to be collected new.
Source: Mozilla Common Voice language statistics, fetched 2026-11-05. Figures cover the open Common Voice corpus only.
Need Northern Sotho data?
We recruit native Northern Sotho speakers and collect to your spec: read prompts or natural two-person conversation, transcripts in the native script, speaker age, gender and region labels, noise and synthetic-voice checks, and a consent record for every file. Shared or exclusive licence.
Speak Northern Sotho?
Sesotho sa Leboa
Join the contributor waitlist and we'll email you paid Northern Sotho recording and writing projects when they open. You record on your phone and are paid once your work is accepted.
Questions
Where can I get Northern Sotho speech data for AI training?
Norynta collects Northern Sotho speech data to order from consenting native speakers: read prompts, natural conversations, transcripts and private evaluation sets, with a consent and origin record for every file. Request it at collect.norynta.com/buy. For open data, Mozilla Common Voice has 0 validated hours of Northern Sotho (as of 2026-11-05).
How much open Northern Sotho speech data is available?
As of 2026-11-05, Mozilla Common Voice lists 0 validated hours and 0.2 recorded hours of Northern Sotho from 2 speakers, ranking 381 of 445 languages by validated hours.
Can I get paid to record Northern Sotho?
Yes. Native Northern Sotho speakers can join Norynta's contributor waitlist at collect.norynta.com/join. We email paid recording and writing projects in Northern Sotho when they open, and pay once the work is accepted.