README.md

---
license: mit
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
language:
- wo
tags:
- ASR
- Wolof
- Audio
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# 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