Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Fe'fe'

[Feʼefeʼe] — Feʼefeʼe (fmp)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Feʼefeʼe (fmp). The dataset contains 13 hours of recorded speech (12 hours validated) from 32 speakers.

Language

According to Ethnologue online, Fe’fe’ is a stable indigenous language of Cameroon. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family

Variants

Contributors to this dataset have listed two varities of Fe'efe'e, namely, Nkwa and Nka’. The sentence prompts originate from both varieties.

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. Nkwe yᾱᾱ mʉ̄ngén siʼ mά mbhi pí ǎ túmfαʼ yōh

2. Mʉnzhwīē kα̌ ndάʼ ndə yə̌ lά sǐʼ nsī lə́bdʉ̄ᾱ bᾱ

3. Thʉthʉ̌ nkwēʼ, ncwī síʼ mbᾱ nά í bᾱ

4. Ǒ ndah móʼ laʼ mfhʉ̄ ko, ndīʼ kwēn zhie yāā lǐʼ nkǒ ǒ mα ǎ cóh

5. Ghen ndómsí nshi hᾱ ā, n ndah sóh nā a cʉ̄ʼcô

Automatic random samples

Pάʼ ǒ lα mbᾱ mbǒh cʉ̄cʉ̄ niά siʼ lōʼ nshʉαʼ.
Ndéʼ mά wen kα̌ njīī siʼ mα nkwe mfα̌ʼ ngάʼ lah mfάʼ lά.
Ngα̌ tāā ntᾱʼ mbītǔmά ǒ kα mάʼnkᾱᾱ ntᾱʼ na.
Pó ndíʼ mα̌ʼ nᾱʼ sīē mαnjóósí mᾱndōō yōʼsi.
Mven ntēnᾱ bα̌ tα ndíʼ zʉ̌ʼ nά o mα pά ndat cōp bō.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/fmp/

Acknowledgements

The compilation of this dataset occured during data camp organized in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in May 2025. Two main contributors were involved in the localization of the MCV interface for Fe'efe'e, gathering of the sentence prompts, reading sentence prompts, and validating recordings. They are :

• Franchesco Ngameni Elong

• Nicole Wogfa

The organization of the data camp was conducted by a dynamic whose dedication is herewith acknowledged :

• Dr. Florus Landry Dibenge (Project Lead)

• Eliette Emilie-Caroline Ngo Tjomb Assembe

• Eric Koung

• Blaise Mathieu Banum Manguele

• Martial Brice Antangana Eloundou

• Emmanuel Giovanni Eloundou Eyenga

Datasheet authors

Emmanuel Ngue Um ngueum@gmail.com, Nicole Wogfa wogfanicole@gmail.com, Franchesco Ngameni Elong ngamenifranchesco@gmail.com

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.