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Dataset Summary
This corpus consists of approximately 22 hours of speech recordings. Transcripts are provided for all the recordings. The corpus can be divided into 3 parts:
- Yaounde
Collected by a team from the U.S. Military Academy's Center for Technology Enhanced Language Learning (CTELL) in 2003 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It has recordings from 84 speakers, 48 male and 36 female.
- CA16
This part was collected by a RDECOM Science Team who participated in the United Nations exercise Central Accord 16 (CA16) in Libreville, Gabon in June 2016. The Science Team included DARPA's Dr. Boyan Onyshkevich and Dr. Aaron Lawson (SRI International), as well as RDECOM scientists. It has recordings from 125 speakers from Cameroon, Chad, Congo and Gabon.
- Niger
This part was collected from 23 speakers in Niamey, Niger, Oct. 26-30 2015. These speakers were students in a course for officers and sergeants presented by Army trainers assigned to U.S. Army Africa. The data was collected by RDECOM Science & Technology Advisors Major Eddie Strimel and Mr. Bill Bergen.
Languages
French
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
A typical data point comprises the path to the audio file, called audio and its sentence.
Data Fields
audio: A dictionary containing the path to the downloaded audio file, the decoded audio array, and the sampling rate. Note that when accessing the audio column:
dataset[0]["audio"]
the audio file is automatically decoded and resampled todataset.features["audio"].sampling_rate
. Decoding and resampling of a large number of audio files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the"audio"
column, i.e.dataset[0]["audio"]
should always be preferred overdataset["audio"][0]
.sentence: The sentence the user was prompted to speak
Data Splits
The speech material has been subdivided into portions for train and test. The train split consists of 9401 audio clips and the related sentences. The test split consists of 1985 audio clips and the related sentences.
Contributions
@gigant added this dataset.
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