Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Fang

[Fang] — Fang (fan)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Fang (fan). The dataset contains 12 hours of recorded speech (12 hours validated) from 43 speakers.

Language

Fang is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger-Congo familty and to the Beti-Fang group.

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 sentence prompts is that of the Protestant Missionaries.

Sample

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

1. Bito betare be nga likh

2. Tsiiyi fô ason é tsaman

3. Me kî é sughʼé mone mbokh

4. Keñé ésa zia be ne, ô bômé bo fwé

5. Sè môr meti nlô

Automatic random samples

Nkol ô mana kabda éli,
Koko a ne vé, a ye wo bi.
Luma bifer,
Ngwuin é nga swimi minlakh nyandomo é nye a baʼa moi.
Nya ayañe.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

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

• Raissa Messeng

• Jojo Paulnareph Moaboulou Endamane

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, Raissa Messeng assimizele@gmail.com, Jojo Paulnareph Moaboulou Endamane jopaulmoa@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.