Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Ghomala

[Ghomala] — Ghomala (bbj)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Ghomala (bbj). The dataset contains 13 hours of recorded speech (13 hours validated) from 31 speakers.

Language

Ghomala is a Central-Bamileke language of the Grassfield-Bantu sub-group. It is spoken in the Mifi Division, West Region of Cameroon.

Variants

The Administrative Atlas of Cameroon's Languages (Breton and Bikia Fohtung 1991) lists four dialectal areas for the Ghomala language:

• North Ghomala which comprises Fu'sep (of Bafoussam) and Lang (of Balong) varieties

• Ngomba also known as West-Ghomala which comprises the Mugum (of the Bamungum), the Meka (of the Bameka) and the Monjo (of the Bamenju) varieties

• Central-Ghomala which has the following varieties : Jo (of the Banjun), and Yegam (of the Bayangam)

• South Ghomama which comprises Te (of the Batie), Pa (of the Bapa) and Denkwop (of the Badenwkop)

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. Nə́ fa' dəm nám ntʉɔ

2. Bâ tɛ msətùk bə́ yə pə́ wɛ mdzə

3. Ywə́ mlwâ euthanasie bə́ kʉ́ʉ́ ?

4. Pú bəm cwəp mɔkshyə dəm mta'shyə

5. Mə̌shyə bə́ yə gwyə̌, á haptə mtə̀m guŋ

Automatic random samples

Á wə́ cəŋ gaə̂ zhyə́ mlwâ kə́ŋtə́ données.
Ó fíŋ nə́ níŋ yǎ tʉ́m bɔ̂'sì a ?
Ě pə́ gwák mtâ pyə́ jyə ghə̀ mʉ́ é jʉm.
Pəjwǐ pə́ nɛ́ msɛ tâ.
Pú gaə̂kə́ tə pák mnwə mlwâ tuŋ ?

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/bbj/

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 Ghomala, gathering of the sentence prompts, reading sentence prompts, and validating recordings. They are :

• Norine Andreas Kenge Defo

• Paulin Noel Deffo Fogem

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, Norine Andreas Kenge Defo kengneandreas8@gmail.com, Paulin Noel Deffo Fogem < Noelfradiquesfoguem@gmail.com>

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.