We are building the first every Igbo speech-to-text model called IgboSpeech that will be able to transcribe Igbo audio into Igbo text, and we need your help to collect the necessary data to build this world-defining technology.

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Table of Contents

References

• Igbo Definitions Standards

Video Guide 🎞️

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XMl-rdcbzOw

Step 0: What is the Igbo API Editor Platform?

Login page for the Igbo API Editor Platform.

The Igbo API Editor Platform is our custom-build Igbo data entry platform where you will be creating all the data for IgboSpeech.

Step 1: Create an Igbo API Editor Platform Account

Create a new account on the Igbo API Editor Platform by going to the website here: https://editor.igboapi.com

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Step 1a: Review the Recording Audio Standards

Please refer to Recording Audio Standards to learn what is considered as a “high-quality” audio recording.

Step 2: Record or Verify Sentence Audio

For this year, we’re focusing our efforts on collecting a lot of Igbo audio data. The platform is set up so that it’s incredibly easy for you to either record audio for example sentences or verify recorded audio for example sentences.

Click on either Record Igbo audio or Verify recorded Igbo audio to either record or verify example sentence audio data.