Baule speech dataset

The dataset was created to enable research on automatic speech recognition in Boulé (Baule) language. It contains about 565 recordings of participants reading a transcription in Baule as spoken in Côte d’Ivoire, one sentence at a time. Each example contains the audio files and the associated text. The audio is recorded in a less noisy environment by the speakers using their android phone. The dataset is multi-speaker, containing recordings from 4 volunteers (2 males and 2 females), where each volunteer contributed up to 141 recordings. The recordings took place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in April 2022.