| --- |
| license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
| language: |
| - wo |
| - ff |
| - bm |
| task_categories: |
| - automatic-speech-recognition |
| pretty_name: Bocalantics |
| tags: |
| - west-african |
| - wolof |
| - pulaar |
| - fula |
| - bambara |
| - asr |
| - speech |
| - low-resource |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| --- |
| |
| # Bocalantics |
|
|
| One normalized, license-clean speech corpus for **West African languages** — |
| Wolof, Pulaar/Fula, and Bambara — merged from the fragmented community datasets |
| into a single source you can train on anywhere with `load_dataset`. |
|
|
| West African languages are spoken by one interconnected, multilingual people; |
| Bocalantics treats them as one corpus so a single model can learn across them. |
|
|
| ## Schema |
| | field | type | |
| |---|---| |
| | `audio` | Audio (16 kHz) | |
| | `text` | string — the transcription | |
| | `lang` | string — `wo` / `ff` / `bam` | |
| | `source` | string — upstream dataset id | |
| | `license` | string — upstream license | |
| | `duration` | float — seconds (0.0 where the source omitted it) | |
|
|
| Splits: `train` / `validation` / `test`. |
|
|
| ## Composition (clips) |
| | lang | clips | |
| |---|---| |
| | bam | 38769 | |
| | ff | 17253 | |
| | wo | 86729 | |
|
|
| ## Provenance & attribution |
| Built only from clean-licensed sources, each row carrying its `source` and |
| `license`. Please credit the upstream creators: |
|
|
| | source | lang | license | credit | link | |
| |---|---|---|---|---| |
| | `soynade-research/Wolof-ASR-Data` | wo | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | soynade-research | [link](https://hf.co/datasets/soynade-research/Wolof-ASR-Data) | |
| | `ngia/ASR_pulaar` | ff | CC-BY-4.0 | ngia | [link](https://hf.co/datasets/ngia/ASR_pulaar) | |
| | `RobotsMali/bam-asr-early` | bam | CC-BY-4.0 | RobotsMali AI4D Lab (Jeli-ASR, Mali-Pensé / A. Ouattara) | [link](https://hf.co/datasets/RobotsMali/bam-asr-early) | |
|
|
| ## License |
| The collection is released under **CC-BY-SA-4.0** (the share-alike umbrella, since |
| one source is CC-BY-SA; the CC-BY sources are relicensed into the collection with |
| attribution preserved). Attribute the upstream creators above. |
|
|
| ## Load |
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("MOH749/Bocalantics", split="train") |
| # per-language: ds = ds.filter(lambda x: x["lang"] == "wo") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Roadmap |
| - v1.1: add **Sereer** + more Wolof/Pulaar via Kallaama (CC-BY-4.0, Jokalante), |
| once re-hosted from `github.com/gauthelo/kallaama-speech-dataset`. |
| - Mande siblings (Soninke, Mandinka) await licensed speech data. |
|
|
