The dataset comprises of 5000 hours speech corpus in Akan, Ewe, Dagbani, Daagare, and Ikposo. Each language includes 1000 hours of audio speech from indigenous speakers of the language and 100 hours of transcription.
# UGSpeechData - Audio speech dataset of 5 Ghanaian languages - Akan, Ewe, Dagbani, Dagaare, and Ikposo
The dataset comprises of 5000 hours speech corpus in Akan, Ewe, Dagbani, Daagare, and Ikposo. Each language includes 1000 hours of audio speech from indigenous speakers of the language and 100 hours of transcription.
# Link(s) to Data Assets
* Local Audios + AUDIO ID.csv
AUDIO_ID.csv Description
Column
Description
IMAGE_URL
Provides the relative path to the images in the folder
IMAGE_SRC_URL
Provides the source path to the actual image online
AUDIO_URL
Provides the relative path to the local audio language in the Local Audio folder
ORG_NAME
Identifies the institution coordinating the audio collection
PROJECT_NAME
Provides the name of the project
SPEAKER_ID
Provides the ID number of the individual describing the image
LOCALE
Provides the local language IETF BCP 47 language tag of the audio file
GENDER
Provides the individual providing the audio description gender
AGE
Provides the individual providing the audio description age
DEVICE
Identifies the device from which the audio recording was done
ENVIRONMENT
Identifies the space within which the audio was recorded
YEAR
The year in which the audio was recorded
Note: Local IDs
Locale ID
Name
ak_gh
Akan
dga_gh
Dagbani
dag_gh
Dagaare
ee_gh
Ewe
kpo_gh
Ikposo
# CITATION
Wiafe, I., Abdulai, J., Ekpezu, A. O., Dodzie, R., Atsakpo, E. D., Nutrokpor, C., Winful, F. B. P., & Solaga, K. K. (2023). UGSPEECHDATA (Version 1.0.0) [Data set].
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