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Ghomálá' Spoken New Testament — aligned audio + trilingual text Part of the Lingo / NativeAI language-preservation project. This is ~20 hours of spoken Ghomálá' (Ghomala, ISO bbj; a Grassfields Bantu language of West Cameroon) — recorded readings of the New Testament — aligned chapter-by-chapter with parallel text in Ghomálá', French, and English. Spoken-language data is exactly what oral-first Cameroonian languages lack, which makes this a rare resource for building ASR, TTS… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/flagship-ai/ghomala-spoken-bible.

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Ghomálá' Spoken New Testament — aligned audio + trilingual text

Part of the Lingo / NativeAI language-preservation project. This is ~20 hours of spoken Ghomálá' (Ghomala, ISO bbj; a Grassfields Bantu language of West Cameroon) — recorded readings of the New Testament — aligned chapter-by-chapter with parallel text in Ghomálá', French, and English.

Spoken-language data is exactly what oral-first Cameroonian languages lack, which makes this a rare resource for building ASR, TTS, and speech-translation for Ghomálá'.

Contents

Audio260 chapter recordings, audio/<BOOK>.<chapter>.mp3
Total duration~19h 49m
Books27 New Testament books (Gospels, Acts, Epistles, Revelation)
Parallel texttext/ghomala/, text/french/, text/english/ — 260 chapters each, verse-numbered
Manifestmanifest.csv — audio ↔ book ↔ chapter ↔ duration ↔ text paths

Audio and text align by BOOK.chapter (e.g. audio/1CO.13.mp3 ↔ text/ghomala/1CO.13.txt).

Usage

python
import csv
rows = list(csv.DictReader(open("manifest.csv")))
print(rows[0])  # {'audio': '1CO.1.mp3', 'book': '1CO', 'chapter': '1', 'duration_sec': '...', ...}

Provenance & licensing

The audio recordings were produced by the project. The underlying scripture text comes from existing Bible translations whose rights belong to their respective publishers; the parallel text is included for research alignment. Released for research and language-preservation use under CC-BY-4.0 for the project-original material; if you represent a rights-holder of any included translation and have a concern, contact us via lingo.cm and we will address it promptly.

— Open data for Cameroonian languages · lingo.cm