Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Kom

[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.

Age

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

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.

1. Mbvɨngwo ghɨ ntè' ghɨ kɨ-a kɨ camelûn i jɨm bòm ndo àfvɨ zɨ a i ghɨ a fu

2. Ngem ka i bu læ kum bula àmbu' a ngèm

3. Su fu ma nɨ̀ ìti ma gva fɨsus ateyn

4. Ghesina kɨŋ nkɨŋsɨ kfa nɨ̀ seynsɨ

5. 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.