Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Mokpwe

[Mokpwe] — Mokpwe (bri)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Mokpwe (bri). The dataset contains 12 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 15 speakers.

Language

Mokpwe (also known as Bakweri) is a coastal Bantu language mainly spoken in the Fako Division, South-West Region in Cameroon.

Variants

Contributors to this dataset reported two Mokpwe variants: Upper-Mokpwe, spoken in Buea, and Lower-Mokpwe, spoken in Bimbia. The sentence prompts used for read speech in the compilation of this dataset represent the Upper Mokpwe variety.

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 used for read speech in the compilation of this dataset is phonetic based.

Sample

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

1. Èmbèrzà èmɛ̀ndɛ́ lìwòtéyá éèyé nǎtɛ̀ɛ̀ nǒ mòrzô

2. Hwɛ́nɔ̀ní hwékpéélì ó ndáwò

3. Ò rzênjé wélùwà

4. Rzɛ̀kɛ́tɛ́ ìnɔ̀ní íŋɡî.

5. Lǐwɔ̀ŋgɔ́ lǔŋwɛ̀lɛ̀ èmbówà

Automatic random samples

Méòndó émá métánà.
Òrzìɲɛ́ hwá rzâ nà lìmùŋɡà.
Kíŋgɛ̀ tɛ́ nà kíŋgɛ̀.
Ŋɡbâ í tâ.
 lɔ́ ú kítūm chès.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/bri

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 Mokpwe, gathering of the sentence prompts, reading sentence prompts, and validating recordings. They are :

• Gratien Gualbert Atindogbe

• Noela Mesanga Lambe

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

Datasheet authors

Emmanuel Ngue Um ngueum@gmail.com, Gratien Gualbert Atindogbe atindogbe.gratien@ubuea.cm, Noela Mesanga Lambe noelalambe@gmail.com

Citation guidelines

Ngué Um E, Ngo Tjomb EEC, Dibengue FL, Banum Manguele BM, Abo Djoulde B, Nyambe MA, Atangana Eloundou BM, Ngami Kamagoua JS, Mpouda Avom J, Nyobe Z, Eloundou Eyenga EG, Likwai AP (2025) Speech Technologies Datasets for African Under-Served Languages. Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, edited by Lachler J, Agyapong G, Arppe A, Moeller S, Chaudhary A, Rijhwani S, Rosenblum D. URL Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Funding

The organization of the data camp that led to the compilation of this dataset was made possible by a grant by the Mozilla Foundation under the Opem Multingual Speech Fund (OMSF)

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.