Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Basaa

Basaa — Basaa (bas)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Basaa (bas). The dataset contains 14 hours of recorded speech (12 hours validated) from 54 speakers.

Language

Basaa is a language spoken in Cameroon by a population of around 500k speakers. While the vitality of Basaa is considered to be stable by Ethnologue intergenerational transmission is not systematically achieved, mostly in urban areas.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Age

Self-declared age information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Writing system

Basaa has several competing writing norms. The most widely used are the Catholic missionary orthography, the Prostestant missionary orthography, and a version of the General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages that was adapted to Basaa.

This dataset is mostly based on the Protestant missionary's orthography, with minor alterations concerning, for example, the signaling of b as implosive [ɓ]. For example, m'bôñ "cassava" vs mbôñ "poison". Other alterations includes the signaling of the n- prefix followed by the y symbol, to distinguish it from the complex symbol ny. For example, nyo "mouth" vs a n'yo "he stole palm wine from the palm trunk".

Contribute

• Contribute voice recordings

• Contribute sentences

• Validate recordings

• Review sentences

Datasheet authors

• Emmanuel Ngué Um ngueum@gmail.com

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.