Spontaneous & semi-guided
Speech grounded in everyday topics, with natural phrasing, hesitations and repetitions.
Cameroon French · Commercial speech dataset
FR-CMR —Cameroon French
Speech Dataset
Contemporary, real-world Cameroon French speech data for ASR and language technologies.
Recorded in CameroonSpontaneous speech.
Everyday contexts.
Human-validated references.
Everyday contexts.
Human-validated references.
162Speakers
~1,170Utterances
Nearly 5Hours of speech
Real speech. Local context.
FR-CMR brings together spontaneous and semi-guided French speech collected in Cameroon, human-validated ASR references, and structured metadata. The corpus supports ASR evaluation, model adaptation and language technology research.
Dataset Highlights
From field collection to structured dataReal-world recordings in Cameroon
Field-collected speech with the context and acoustic variation of everyday recording environments.
Contemporary Cameroon French
French as spoken in Cameroon, preserving the lexical content and character of the original speech.
Human-validated ASR references
Enriched verbatim transcription and structured orthographic references for speech recognition evaluation.
Speaker, contextual & acoustic metadata
Structured information to help teams understand the speakers, collection contexts and audio characteristics.
Dedicated ASR benchmark
A defined evaluation subset with human references to assess speech recognition on Cameroon French.
Structured and quality-controlled data
Transcription, normalization and quality review support technical evaluation.
Beyond FR-CMR
We develop targeted speech datasets for underrepresented African speech varieties, based on specific linguistic, geographic and use-case requirements.
For speech & language technology teams
Commercial Licensing
FR-CMR is available for commercial licensing. Technical documentation and controlled evaluation samples can be shared with qualified organisations on request.
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