Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Nigerian Pidgin

[Nigerian Pidgin English] — Nigerian Pidgin English (pcm)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Nigerian Pidgin English (pcm). The dataset contains 15 hours of recorded speech (14 hours validated) from 57 speakers.

Language

According to Ethnologue online, Nigerian Pidgin is a language of wider communication that originated in Nigeria. It is an English-based creole and used primarily as a second language.

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

Latin scripts

Sample

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

1. The pikin don born hin papa

2. Dis one wey don enter my hand, no go comot even if una wan kill me

3. Na which time dem tok say di meeting go start because I dey do somtin

4. Pepper soup don de sup

5. Mak tunder fire yu for that place wey yu stand so

Automatic random samples

Wetin dat one tak mean na?
E mean say devil dey for dat place.
One pesin no dey get all the sence.
Thank you well well.
I tink say yu de shem.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/pcm/

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 :

• Adéwùnmí ADÉTỌ̀MÍWÁ Anuoluwapọ

• Augustine Emeka Ugwumgbo

• Affiong Fred Effiom

• Joseph Yohanna Joseph

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, Adéwùnmí ADÉTỌ̀MÍWÁ Anuoluwapọ aadetomiwa@unilag.edu.ng, Augustine Emeka Ugwumgbo emekaugwumgbo@vertas.edu.com, Affiong Fred Effiom affiongeffiom@unical.edu.ng, Joseph Yohanna Joseph waliyayohannajoseph@yahoo.fr,

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.