Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Borgu Fulfulde

[Borgu Fulfulde] — Borgu Fulfulde (fue)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Borgu Fulfulde (fue). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 9 speakers.

Language

According to Ethnologue online, Borgu Fulfulde is a stable indigenous language of Benin. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family and is part of the Fulah macrolanguage.

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 in the collection of sentence prompts is mostly based on Latin script with a few phonetic symbols such as ŋ, ɗ, and ɓ.

Sample

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

1. Lambaaji ɗii ɗo laatii cuuron kon becce ɗuuɗɗe

2. Ne nandu nun pakoroowal gooduŋal cuuron feere feere

3. Debbo makko e noddee faaɗima

4. Siire kona e woodi Arondisema e kilomeetiri cappanɗe tati e joy

5. Oorooji e woodi nagge ranee

Automatic random samples

Ɓeedaneego annal waɓii balɗe naahi.
O heɓi reedu ɓaawo lebbi ɗiɗi.
Tooraaji tan o fottata e gurdam makko.
Ɓe tefi mo fonde tawaaŋal.
Ɓe janŋa ɗereeji maɓɓe bo.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/fue/

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

• Elcana Djabiyel

• Hubert Orou Goura

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, Elcana Djabiyel < djabiyele@gmail.com>, Hubert Orou Goura <>

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.