Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Baoulé

[Baoule] — Baoule (bci)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Baoule (bci). The dataset contains 15 hours of recorded speech (12 hours validated) from 16 speakers.

Language

According to Ethnologue online Baoulé is a stable indigenous language of Côte d’Ivoire. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family.

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 writing system used for the collection of sentence prompts for read speech in the dataset is phonetic-based.

Sample

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

1. Ta lɛ kpaki nin wɔtrɛwa gnan wlu wlɛ ɔ

2. Klɔʼn ti dĩn kɛ like kwlaa kɔ kpaʼn

3. Nzue mʼɔ la nglo lɔ plaiiʼn ti kɛ kplo ufue sa

4. É kán ndɛ é klé i naan ɔ man fie difuɛʼm be kwlaa be gua kpa

5. Nzue su tɔ dan andɛ, nán ɔ wla fi ɔ tralɛʼm be s

Automatic random samples

Ngue ekun yɛ sran sɔʼm be kunndɛ ɔ?
Tchɛtchɛ ɔ timan sɔ ndɛ.
Kɛ be se kɛ be wun bianʼn, i boʼn yɛle kɛ be simɛn i.
Ba yasuaʼm be su tra jue nzue baʼn nun kɛ wiaʼn fíteʼn.
Ɔ ti sran kun mɔ e simɛn iʼn, yɛ e flɛ i kɛ hey.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/bci/

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

• Amoin Eve Ombreta Audrey Kouame

• Guy Jaurès Yao Konan

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, Amoin Eve Ombreta Audrey Kouame eveaudreykouame@gmail.com, Guy Jaurès Yao Konan kaunan15@outlook.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.