TexaData
Catalogue
TXD-AUD-WCA-01

West African Conversational Speech

Two sources feed this collection. Field capture on lavalier — market negotiation, workshop instruction, household conversation — and cleared archive from radio talk and call-in programming across anglophone and francophone stations. Natural multi-speaker conversation with genuine overlap and interruption is the hardest single requirement in speech data; it is also what an entire broadcast tradition in this region consists of. Delivered with speaker labels, diarisation and timestamped transcripts.

A barber cutting hair at a stand on the roadside
Assets
1
Duration
0.5 h
Volume
300.7 MB
Languages
2
Annotated
1/1
Consent
1/1
Failure events
0
01
A barber at work in the open air, customer under a cape
A barber cutting hair at a stand on the roadside
A small barbershop interior lit by a single bulb
A customer in the chair reflected in a barbershop mirror
Trading in the open beside a road
TXA-LAG-AUD-0001audio_conversational · 27:22

Market price negotiation, three speakers, heavy overlap, Yoruba–Pidgin code-switching

00:0027:22
lavalier_on_subjectprice_negotiation_multi_speakeryoen-NG-pidginTXA-AVR-0007
38-column manifest row

Overlap ratio 0.19 with 47 code-switch events. Three speakers, two of whom interrupt each other repeatedly. This is the acoustic and turn-taking profile that scripted collection cannot reproduce.

A customer in the chair reflected in a barbershop mirror

Manifest CSV

asset_idmodalitydur_sresolutionfpslanguagescamera_positionconsent_doc_refai_training
TXA-LAG-AUD-0001audio_conversational1642yo;en-NG-pidginlavalier_on_subjectTXA-AVR-0007granted