Mooré Spoken Riddles Dataset for Speech Technology

A spoken collection of traditional Mooré riddles created for academic and research use in low-resource speech and language technologies. The dataset was created by goaicorp and was last updated in April 2026. It is designed to support work in text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, and oral tradition modeling for the Mooré language.

Use Cases

• Train automatic speech recognition (ASR) models on the spoken audio of Mooré riddles.
• Develop text-to-speech (TTS) systems using the paired audio and textual riddle content.
• Analyze patterns and structures in the textual transcriptions of traditional oral riddles.
• Model oral tradition and cultural language use through the specific genre of riddles.

Strengths

• Dataset is specifically created for the low-resource Mooré language (ISO 639-3: mos).
• Focuses on a culturally specific data type: traditional spoken riddles.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and file formats are unknown.
• Access is gated, requiring a request process which may delay use.
• Potential limitations in sample size or demographic coverage are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

goaicorp

Collection Method

Collection of traditional Mooré riddles, methodology unknown.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

Presumably regions where the Mooré language is spoken, specific coverage unknown.