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  # 📘 **African Next Voices – Bambara (AfVoices)**
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- The **AfVoices** dataset is the largest open corpus of spontaneous Bambara speech at its release in late 2025. It contains **423 hours** of segmented audio and **612 hours** of original raw recordings collected across southern Mali. Speech was recorded in natural, conversational settings and annotated using a semi-automated transcription pipeline combining ASR pre-labels and human corrections.
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  ## 📑 **Citation**
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  ```bibtex
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- @article{diarra2025afvoices,
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- title={Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP},
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- author={Diarra, Yacouba and Coulibaly, Nouhoum Souleymane and Kamaté, Panga Azazia and Tall, Madani Amadou and Koné, Emmanuel Élisé and Dembélé, Aymane and Leventhal, Michael},
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- journal={Preprint},
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- note = {arxiv coming soon}
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- year={2025},
 
 
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  }
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  ```
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  # 📘 **African Next Voices – Bambara (AfVoices)**
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+ The **AfVoices** dataset is the largest open corpus of spontaneous Bambara speech at its release in late 2025. It contains **423 hours** of segmented audio and **612 hours** of original raw recordings collected across southern Mali. Speech was recorded in natural, conversational settings and annotated using a semi-automated transcription pipeline combining ASR pre-labels and human corrections. We release all the data processing code on [GitHub](https://github.com/RobotsMali-AI/afvoices).
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  ## 📑 **Citation**
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  ```bibtex
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+ @misc{diarra2025dealinghardfactslowresource,
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+ title={Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP},
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+ author={Yacouba Diarra and Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly and Panga Azazia Kamaté and Madani Amadou Tall and Emmanuel Élisé Koné and Aymane Dembélé and Michael Leventhal},
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+ year={2025},
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+ eprint={2511.18557},
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+ archivePrefix={arXiv},
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+ primaryClass={cs.CL},
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+ url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18557},
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  }
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  ```
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