Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Kom

Specifics

Licensing

CC0-1.0

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Considerations

Restrictions/Special Constraints

You agree that you will not re-host or re-share this dataset

Forbidden Usage

You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset

Processes

Intended Use

This dataset is intended to be used for training and evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. It may also be used for applications relating to computer-aided language learning (CALL) and language or heritage revitalisation.

Metadata

[Kom] — Kom (`bkm`)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Kom (bkm). The dataset contains 13 hours of recorded speech (13 hours validated) from 27 speakers.

Language

Kom is a Grassfield-Bantu language that belongs to the group Ring and is spoken in the Menchum Division, North-West region in Cameroon.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Gender	Pertentage
Undefined	100.0%

Age

Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Age Band	Percentage
Undefined	100.0%

Writing system

The collection of sentence prompts provided by the language representatives aligns with the General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.

Mbvɨngwo ghɨ ntè' ghɨ kɨ-a kɨ camelûn i jɨm bòm ndo àfvɨ zɨ a i ghɨ a fu
Ngem ka i bu læ kum bula àmbu' a ngèm
Su fu ma nɨ̀ ìti ma gva fɨsus ateyn
Ghesina kɨŋ nkɨŋsɨ kfa nɨ̀ seynsɨ
A ghɨ a kom ɨlwe' ɨ sana

Automatic random samples

Ngem ka i bu læ kum bula àmbu' a ngèm.
Ghɨ n-læ meyn bè sɨ̂ mà na ka mà læ̂ tìmi aleʼ à mòʼ achi a li-a, nà chîtɨ̀ ghelɨ na ghɨ ni iwo.
Wayn weyn nle' ntum.
A ghɨ nsaŋ nyam tî.
Và lu a Acha va dyaŋ Ashɨŋ.

Community links

Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/bkm

Acknowledgements

The compilation of this dataset occured during data camp organized in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in September-October 2024. Two main contributors were involved in the localization of the MCV interface for Kom, gathering of the sentence prompts, reading sentence prompts, and validating recordings. They are :

Gilian Nindum
Milton Mih Nges

The organization of the data camp was conducted by a dynamic whose dedication is herewith acknowledged :

Eliette Emilie-Caroline Ngo Tjomb Assembe (Project Lead)
Dr. Florus Landry Dibenge
Blaise Mathieu Banoum Manguele
Blaise Abo Djoulde
Mathilde Nyambe A.
Brice Martial Atangana Eloundou
Jeff Sterling Ngami Kamagoua
José Mpuda Avom
Zacharie Nyobe
Emmanuel Giovanni Eloundou Eyenga
André Pascal Likwai

Licence

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) licence. By downloading this data you agree to not determine the identity of speakers in the dataset.