This is a repository of open-licensed storybook audio from the African Storybook Project.
Each subfolder in the main directory contains recordings for a different language, identified by its ISO 639-1/3 code (e.g. fr for French, lg for Luganda).
A full list of languages covered by this repository and their ISO 639-1/3 codes can be found here.
The stories have been recorded by volunteers and are provided in several different formats to facilitate ease of use in other projects.
Full audio of each story is available in mp3 and ogg format in the root of each subdirectory.
In addition, pre-split tracks in both mp3 and ogg format can be found in mp3 and ogg folders for each story. Each track represents one page of the storybook.
The audio in this repository has been used in a number of ways. Currently, all recordings are automatically paired with corresponding text and images to create audio slideshows for the Global African Storybook Project. You can listen to and read along with these stories here.
All audio in this repository is released under a Creative Commons license, either CC-BY or CC-BY-NC, in accordance with the license of the original stories from which they were extracted. A full list of source stories for the audio can be found here.
The numeric codes found within the language directories in this repository refer to story index numbers and can be looked up on the master list to find the corresponding license for each story and links to the original stories on the ASP website containing full author and illustrator attribution.