Griots Interviews, Bambara Language WAV, 30 hours, Recorded 2022, Cultural and ASR Training Resource

Source material to this project:

• Addition to 200,000 lines Bambara-French clean synchronized corpus

• Co-project with Google, recorded 30 hours video interviews with Griots

• 30 hours manually transcribed and translated to French

• 10 hours used in training ASR system and MT transformer

• 100% Open Sourced

• Cultural/Technical Exhibition to be hosted online and in the National Museum of Mali

• Record, preserve, and share Malian culture with the world

• Contribute to the science of low-resource language NLP

• Reinforce the development of written Bambara

• Enable Bambara to reach status as a “first-class internet language”

Corresponding transcribed data can be found at the following Github repository