M9and2M/Wolof_ASR_dataset

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