goaicorp/moore-speech-bible

Dataset Card for Moore Speech Bible (Private Internal)

Access: This dataset is hosted privately in the GO AI Corporation Hugging Face organization. Access is limited to approved collaborators under YouVersion’s non-commercial terms.

Summary

The Moore Speech Bible dataset contains sentence-level aligned audio and transcripts from the Mooré Bible (“WẼNNAAM SEBRE 2014”) on bible.com:

• Audio: 16 kHz mono WAV
• Transcripts: Preserve Mooré diacritics
• Alignment: Fairseq MMS forced-aligner, with Uroman for romanization

All code is available in the Moore Speech Corpora Toolkit. ⭐ if it’s helpful!

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  "audio": {
    "path": "data/train/GEN_1_MPBU_segment001.wav",
    "array": [/* waveform samples */],
    "sampling_rate": 16000
  },
  "transcription": "Wakat-kãnga, mam na n tigm-y lame.",
  "duration": 3.16,
  "chapter": "GEN_1_MPBU"
}

Fields

• audio: Path & decoded waveform at 16 kHz
• transcription: Aligned Mooré text
• duration: Segment length in seconds
• chapter: Original chapter code

Splits

Split	Examples	Approx. Duration
train	57 410	~76 hrs
validation	194	~0.5 hrs

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Dataset Creation

1. Crawling

   • crawlers/bible_crawler.py (Scrapy) fetched MP3s and transcripts from bible.com.

2. Preprocessing

   • Resampled to 16 kHz WAV (preprocessing/resample.sh).
   • Cleaned/normalized text (preprocessing/text_normalization.py).

3. Alignment

   • Fairseq MMS forced-align with Uroman (forced_alignement/align_and_segment.sh).

4. Packaging

   • Converted to HF Dataset via datasets/prepare_hf_dataset.py.

Note: Usage follows YouVersion’s non-commercial, internal-use license.

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Contacts & Citation

Curator:

• Wendyellé Abubakrh Alban Nyantudre (anyantudre)

Citation:

@misc{anyantudre2025moorespeechbible,
  title        = {Moore Speech Bible: A Curated Aligned Audio/Text Dataset for Mooré TTS/ASR},
  author       = {Nyantudre, Wendyellé Abubakrh Alban and Bandaogo, Aristide},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {Gated dataset, GO AI Corporation Hugging Face org}
}

Considerations:

• Legal: Internal, non-commercial research only. Redistribution outside GO AI is prohibited without permission.
• Bias: Domain-specific (Bible readings).
• Speakers: Single-narrator; limited variability.