Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Ibibio

[Ibibio] — Ibibio (ibb)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Ibibio (ibb). The dataset contains 28 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 18 speakers.

Language

According to Ethnologue online, Ibibio is a language of wider communication that originated in Nigeria. 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.

Sample

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

1. Ado afo ye ufan mfo etọọñọ nneme ubaaña awo

2. Nsaat ọkọọk ukọt okodo ndisi ọdọ uyai owoññwaan akama ñkpa isʌñ

3. Se mbon idʌñ mfen enam idahami nditọ ukañ nnyịn ebañña

4. Mkpịkke iba ufọk otu mkpọ itie ọkọkọọk ifañ ebono akuañ ikʌk ana ke ñkañ keed

5. Yak nnanna ukuud se enye akesikịd oto ekpo ñkọrọ mme aban ekpo ikidooho mbeñe

Automatic random samples

Usen oyop ekpo ama adat ekpo aya atop ekeka idiọñ mfuut ufọk ekarika edi ete buuñ ifia.
Mmaakịd añwaan mfo ke usʌn ye mma keed mfen ñsọñọ nda mbo yak nsio uyo nnọ enye.
Ami mmekop mkpọ mfịn tutu utọñ iba emi ansịde mkpeketie ke ufọk mfịn mkpediọọñọke se ami ndidiọọñọ ami.
Ikanna uyo isio mmọọñeyịd mme idara ekesaña keed ñwaan ufịp abeti akekan asọp asio uyo.
Kunyenyeññe mmọọñ akpan ọkukuọ ke idooho unen mfo ikpọọñ ke ekekuum.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ibb/

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

• Moses EFFIONG EKPENYONG

• Margaret Okon

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, Moses EFFIONG EKPENYONG mosesekpenyong@uniuyo.edu.ng, Margaret Okon mmaokon@yahoo.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.