Wolof Speech Sample with Transcriptions and French Translations

A sample of 100 utterances of natural Wolof speech recorded by native speakers in Dakar, Senegal. Each audio clip includes a Wolof transcription and a French translation, with both male and female voices. The dataset was created by westafricandata and was last updated on June 10, 2026.

Use Cases

• Training or fine-tuning automatic speech recognition (ASR) models based on the provided Wolof audio and transcriptions.
• Developing speech-to-text translation systems based on the paired Wolof audio and French translations.
• Studying linguistic features or speaker demographics based on the native-speaker recordings from Dakar.
• Benchmarking model performance on low-resource languages based on the sample of natural Wolof speech.

Strengths

• Contains 100 distinct utterances of natural speech.
• Includes both male and female native speaker voices from Dakar, Senegal.
• Provides aligned Wolof transcriptions and French translations for each audio clip.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The sample size of 100 utterances is small for training production-scale models.

Provenance

Source

westafricandata on Hugging Face

Collection Method

Recorded by native speakers in Dakar, Senegal.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-10 19:40:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dakar, Senegal