Fongbe Speech Dataset (Fongbe speech dataset V2)

This dataset was created for Fongbe automatic speech recognition task and contains about 3979 recordings of 13 participants reading a text written in Fongbe, one sentence at a time. Fongbe is a vernacular language spoken mainly in Benin, by more than 50% of the population, and a littke in Togo and in Nigeria. It’s an under-resourced because it lacks linguistics resources (speech corpus and text data) and very few websites provide textual data. In this dataset, each example contains the audio files and the associated text. The audio is high-quality (16-bit, 16kHz) recorded using an adroid app that we built for the need. The dataset is multi-speaker, containing recordings from 13 volunteers (male and female).