Traditional Mooré Folk Stories Speech Corpus

A spoken corpus of traditional Mooré folk stories (contes) designed for low-resource language research. The dataset was created by goaicorp for academic purposes and was last updated in April 2026. Access to the data is gated and requires a request.

Use Cases

• Training ASR models on spoken Mooré folk stories using the audio recordings and corresponding transcriptions.
• Developing TTS systems for Mooré by analyzing the prosody and phonetics in the story audio files.
• Studying linguistic features of Mooré folk narratives through the textual content of the stories.
• Benchmarking low-resource speech processing algorithms on a dedicated corpus of Mooré speech.

Strengths

• Dataset is specifically designed for a low-resource language (Mooré, ISO 639-3: mos).
• Content is focused on a distinct domain: traditional folk stories.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and file formats are unknown.
• Access is gated, requiring a request process which may delay use.
• Geographic origin and temporal coverage of the recordings are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

goaicorp

Collection Method

Collection of spoken folk stories (contes) in Mooré.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

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