niger-volta-lti/yoruba-voice

Repo & Project for the Imminent Research Grant code & tasks

YorùbáVoice

Landing page for data, code and publications for this project sponsored by an Imminent Research Grant.

In 2022, we launched the curation and recording of 40 hours of high-fidelity speech data for the Yorùbá language, the third most widely spoken language in Africa with over 40 million L1 speakers. We partner with the YorubaName organization in Nigeria to encourage volunteers both online and offline to record their voices.

• Official project blog → www.yorubavoice.com
• The dataset is published in the ELRA catalogue →
  • ELRA Resource description page
  • 012-405-700-001-6 → Corresponding unique ISLRN number to use in citations, publications
• The LREC-COLING 2024 paper → arXiv
• The Speech Recorder App we developed → yoruba-voice-speech-recorder
• Source code and various tools used can be found in this present repo

BibTeX entry and citation info

If you make use of our dataset, please cite the our paper.

@misc{ogunremi2023iroyinspeech,
      title={\`{I}r\`{o}y\`{i}nSpeech: A multi-purpose Yor\`{u}b\'{a} Speech Corpus}, 
      author={Tolulope Ogunremi and Kola Tubosun and Anuoluwapo Aremu and Iroro Orife and David Ifeoluwa Adelani},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2307.16071},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

yoruba-voice's Issues

Add g2p code to generate IPA & XSAMPA

• Adapt code from yo-asr project to do g2p using epitran
• Print out IPA & XSAMPA phonetic spellings
• Clean up comments, add README and requirements.txt

[Infrastructure] Setup Githhub repo, project & invite members

• Setup Repository for code & data: yoruba-voice (lowercase, no diacritics because of Github URL limitations)
• Setup Github Project for Yorùbá Voice. Use Kanban with small automation
• Setup Github team (since not everyone in NV-LTI is working on Yorùbá Voice). TBD how exactly we use it for discussions, etc
• Invite members. I don't have the github handle of Àrẹ̀mú
• Start making cards & assigning to people