Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Medumba

[Medumba] — Medumba (byv)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Medumba (byv). The dataset contains 14 hours of recorded speech (14 hours validated) from 96 speakers.

Language

Medumba (Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀) is a Grassfield Bantu language spoken in the Nde Division, 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. Nzwi lo’ ngefet njab lon nke ngo’o

2. Ndə̂mbə́ jú zə̄ bū jʉ̂ nyɔ̌ŋ lí’ bɑ̌k gə̀ mə́ b

3. Mə ghʉ̌ nshun ncʉ’ Mə ghʉ̌ tà’ nshunə

4. Bí lɛ̌n jú zə̄ bā rǎfǎ’ ngômnà’ nɑ́’ brʉ̂ndə́ gí

5. Á mbètte mènzwi zə̄ à yə̂ nùm cɑ́’ ndù

Automatic random samples

Nèn yi ntàne nswène njun nzwe i mba nzwe bon tse yi.
Màa nèn ndù’ nà.
Mɛ́n cwɛ̌d krwâ' ndɛ̂mbə̄ á cwɛ̌d tsjɑ́ŋə́ zə̄ tâp bû mâp.
Ù ngə́ kwɑ̂də̂ gə̀brò nûm bə̄ zə bū rə̂ mùní mbá ù à' rə̌ mòní á ndə̂gə́.
Nse’ ntshundà mbètte nzwi ndù :

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

• Original language request on GitHub

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/byv/

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

• Jeff Sterline Ngami Kamagoua

• Minette Yimga Mbamen

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 Ngué Um ngueum@gmail.com, Jeff Sterline Ngami Kamagoua jeffsterlingngami@gmail.com, Minette Yimga Mbamen minettembamen@yahoo.fr

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.