metadata

license: mit
task_categories:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
language:
  - wo
tags:
  - ASR
  - Wolof
  - Audio
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

Wolof Speech Dataset

This repository hosts a collection of Wolof speech datasets. The datasets, sourced from various contributors, are each stored in separate pickle files. Each pickle file contains the following columns:

audio: The audio data in WAV or MP3 format.
transcription: The corresponding transcriptions of the audio data.
length(duration(s)): The duration of each audio recording.
filename: The name of the audio file.
path: The path to the audio file.

Dataset Overview

datasets from Hugging Face sources

1. ISMA/ALFFA_WOLOF

Source: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Isma/alffa_wolof
Processing: A function was created to extract the audio from the column and save it in a WAV file.

3. PERRYNELSON/WAXAL-WOLOF

Source: https://huggingface.co/datasets/perrynelson/waxal-wolof

4. GOOGLE/FLEURS

Source: https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/fleurs/viewer/wo_sn

datasets from other Website Sources

The following datasets were acquired by downloading a zip file containing folders with audio files and a file (CSV or TXT) housing transcriptions along with the paths to the corresponding audio files:

1. ALFFA DATASET

Authors: Gauthier, Elodie ; Besacier, Laurent ; Voisin, Sylvie ; Melese, Michael ; Elingui, Uriel Pascal
Title: Collecting Resources in Sub-Saharan African Languages for Automatic Speech Recognition: a Case Study of Wolof
link: https://aclanthology.org/L16-1611/

2. WAXAL DATASET

Author: Waxal-Multilingual
Title: Waxal Speech Data Resources
Link: https://github.com/Waxal-Multilingual/speech-data/tree/main

3. WOLOF TTS DATASET

Authors: Diop, Thierno Ibrahima ; Aw, Demba; Jaane, Ami; Badiane, Mamadou
Title: WOLOF TTS(Text To Speech) Data
Link: https://zenodo.org/records/4498861#.YXU2A3X7R-M