Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Guiziga
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CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 206.31 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Guiziga.
Specifics
Considerations
Forbidden Usage
It is forbidden to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the common Voice datasets. It is forbidden to re-host or re-share this dataset
Processes
Intended Use
This dataset is intended to be used for training and evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. It may also be used for applications relating to computer-aided language learning (CALL) and language or heritage revitalisation.
Metadata
[Guiziga] — Guiziga (giz)
This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Guiziga (giz). The dataset contains 6648 clips representing 10.28 hours of recorded
speech (10.05 hours validated) from 32 speakers.
Language
According to Ethnologue online, Giziga is a stable indigenous language of Cameroon. It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family
Variants
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.
| Gender | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 100.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 89.0% |
| Twenties | 3.0% |
| Thirties | 7.0% |
Text corpus
Writing system
The writing system used in the collection of sentence prompts is mostly based on Latin script with a few phonetic symbols such as ŋ, ɗ, and ɓ
Symbol table
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
Lar mitirgeveɗ e naƞ ɗalak, amma ngwasay misi ti huruy o a wuɗam ɓi naha teʼe
Sukuy taƞʼha anta zumam cawa ta
I wuɗ i hiɗik mota ɓa ngi ru nga liʼi ati ngamaɗu hoy
Kira vula vu ɗik da gwat ngi si tewle ta
Akum nga gi dungur angi li papal
Automatic random samples
Ki sa yaʼaka daw a timike a slaka vu o le.
Mbur hana cucuk palnang, a gi kaɓa a wuɗ mizli teʼe ase ngatara.
Lendem ngi bulum hana asa kiɗa madangwasay ngi walahay gar.
Vuŋ a zla zuɓo titim titim.
So zum buy a wuzla ndra.
Sources
Text domains
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 6648 |
Processing
Recommended post-processing
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Acknowledgements
The compilation of this dataset occured during data camp organized in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in May 2025. Two main contributors were involved in the localization of the MCV interface for Tuki, gathering of the sentence prompts, reading sentence prompts, and validating recordings. They are :
Daniel Singaidi
Christiane Mandai Etono
The organization of the data camp was conducted by a dynamic whose dedication is herewith acknowledged :
Dr. Florus Landry Dibenge (Project Lead)
Eliette Emilie-Caroline Ngo Tjomb Assembe
Eric Koung
Blaise Mathieu Banum Manguele
Martial Brice Antangana Eloundou
Emmanuel Giovanni Eloundou Eyenga
Datasheet authors
Emmanuel Ngue Um ngueum@gmail.com, Daniel Singaidi danielsingaidi10@gmail.com, Christiane Mandai Etono etonochristiane@gmail.com
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Funding
This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.
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.