anyantudre/moore-speech-devinettes

Moore Speech Devinettes: A Spoken Riddle Dataset in Mooré

The Moore Speech Devinettes dataset is a spoken collection of traditional Mooré riddles, created for academic and research use in low-resource speech and language technologies.

It is designed to support work in text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), and oral tradition modeling for the Mooré language (ISO 639-3: mos).

⚠️ Access is gated. To request access, please read the policy below. 🚩 TLDR: For safety and traceability, anonymous or vague requests will not be approved.

All scripts used to create this dataset are part of the Moore Speech Corpora Toolkit. ⭐ if it’s helpful!

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Dataset Structure

Each record contains:

• audio: 16 kHz WAV audio of the riddle in Mooré
• transcription: Mooré transcription of the spoken riddle
• duration: Duration of the audio in seconds
• chapter: Identifier for the riddle set
• voice: Type of voice (e.g. adult, child)
• speaker_id: Unique speaker identifier

Example format:

{
  "transcription": "Ka yéla yélga baore?","  
  "duration": 3.14,
  "chapter": "devinettes_set1",
  "voice": "female",
  "speaker_id": "spk_001",
  "audio": { "path": "...", "array": [...], "sampling_rate": 16000 }
}

Dataset Overview

• 🗂️ Split: train
• 🔢 Total examples: 611
• 🕒 Total audio duration (Mooré): ~1.41 hours

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Use Cases

This dataset is intended for:

• Research on low-resource speech technologies
• Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Mooré
• Modeling oral traditions and spoken cultural heritage

❌ Commercial use is not permitted.

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Access Policy (Important)

The dataset is under gated mode to ensure ethical use and protect cultural data integrity. To request access, please contact Wendyellé A. Alban NYANTUDRE (nyantudre@gmail.com).

Access will only be granted to individuals or institutions who:

• Clearly identify themselves
• Describe their intended academic or research use
• Agree to the non-commercial usage restriction

🔐 For safety and traceability reasons, anonymous or vague requests will not be approved.

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Contributing or Collaborating

We welcome collaboration from anyone passionate about representing Mooré in language technologies! There are many ways to contribute:

• Suggest improvements or extensions to the dataset
• Share scripts, tools, or preprocessing tips in the GitHub repo (Moore Speech Corpora Toolkit ⭐)
• Improve documentation or metadata
• Help with validation, alignment, or text normalization

✅ Just make sure your contribution is meaningful, reproducible, and documented. Together, let’s help Mooré shine in the world of AI! 💛 To contribute, feel free to open an issue or contact us directly.

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License

The original audio/text content is sourced from mooreburkina.com and this processed dataset is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, allowing attribution-required, non-commercial use.

• Original audio/text: Copyright MooreBurkina.com – All rights reserved
• This processed dataset: Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution required; strictly non-commercial use only)

For commercial or other usage scenarios not covered by this license, please contact us. By accessing this dataset, you agree to these terms.

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Citation

@misc{nyantudre2025mooredevinettes,
  title        = {Moore Speech Devinettes: A Spoken Riddle Audio Corpus in Mooré},
  author       = {Nyantudre, Wendyellé Abubakrh Alban and Bandaogo, Aristide},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {Hugging Face Datasets (gated)}
}

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Contacts

• Curator: Wendyellé A. Alban NYANTUDRE

  • 📧 nyantudre@gmail.com
  • 💼 LinkedIn

• Aristide BANDAOGO

  • 📧 aristide@goaicorporation.org