## ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES.

**[See Section 3.18 for defined terms](rules#18.-terms)**

*The Automatic Speech Recognition in Wolof competition is a skills-based competition to promote and further the field of data science and ASR for low-resource languages. You must register to enter and agree to these Official Competition Rules, which incorporate by reference the provisions and content of the Competition Website and any Specific Competition Rules herein (collectively, the "Rules"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. Submission in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition.*

**You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot enter or submit from multiple accounts.**

### 1. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC TERMS

**1. COMPETITION TITLE**  
Automatic Speech Recognition in Wolof

**2. COMPETITION SPONSOR**  
This competition is organized by Indabax Sénégal.

**3. COMPETITION SPONSOR ADDRESS**  
Address not specified.

**4. COMPETITION WEBSITE**  
N/A

**5. TOTAL PRIZES AVAILABLE**  
Currently, there are no specified prizes for this competition.

**6. WINNER LICENSE TYPE**  
Open-source license

**7. DATA ACCESS AND USE**  
Data access and use are restricted to Competition Use and Non-Commercial & Academic Research.

### 2. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC RULES

#### 1. TEAM LIMITS  
- The maximum team size is five (5).

#### 2. SUBMISSION LIMITS  
- You may submit a maximum of twenty (20) submissions per day.
- You may select up to five (5) final submissions for judging.

#### 3. COMPETITION TIMELINE  
- The competition runs from November 10, 2024, to December 2, 2024.

#### 4. COMPETITION DATA  
- **Data Access and Use:** Competition Use and Non-Commercial & Academic Research are permitted. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Participant who uses the Competition Data outside these permitted uses.

- **Data Security:** You agree to use reasonable and suitable measures to prevent unauthorized access to the Competition Data. You agree not to share, duplicate, publish, or redistribute the Competition Data and must notify the organizers immediately if any unauthorized access occurs.

#### 5. WINNER LICENSE  
- **Open Source:** Winning submissions and the source code used to generate them must be licensed under an Open Source Initiative-approved license, allowing for academic and non-commercial research use.

#### 6. EXTERNAL DATA AND TOOLS  
- No external data or automated machine learning tools are allowed in this competition.