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add documentation on download size and streaming

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  The `datasets` library allows you to load and pre-process your dataset in pure Python, at scale. The dataset can be downloaded and prepared in one call to your local drive by using the `load_dataset` function.
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  For example, to download the isizulu config, simply specify the corresponding language config name, list of supported accents provided in accent list section below:
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  ```python
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  from datasets import load_dataset
 
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  The `datasets` library allows you to load and pre-process your dataset in pure Python, at scale. The dataset can be downloaded and prepared in one call to your local drive by using the `load_dataset` function.
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+ The entire dataset is ~120GB and may take about 2hrs to download. If you have disk space or bandwidth limitations, you can use `streaming` mode described below to work with smaller subsets of the data.
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+ In future updates, you will be able to pass a config to the `load_dataset` function and download only a subset of the data corresponding to a specific accent of interest. The example provided below is `isizulu`.
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  For example, to download the isizulu config, simply specify the corresponding language config name, list of supported accents provided in accent list section below:
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  ```python
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  from datasets import load_dataset