Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Afrikaans

Locale: af

Size: 34.00 MB

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

License: CC-0


Afrikaans — Afrikaans (af)

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This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Afrikaans (af). The dataset contains 969 clips representing 1.6 hours of recorded speech (0.6 hours validated) from 63 speakers.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

GenderPertentage
Undefined46.0%
Male Masculine32.0%
Female Feminine22.0%

Age

Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Age BandPercentage
Undefined32.0%
Twenties31.0%
Teens1.0%
Fourties21.0%
Fifties15.0%
Seventies1.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 100.00% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train181
Test125
Dev118

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 21366 sentences, of which 4794 are validated, 16572 are invalidated and 73 are reported.

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.

Die oorvertellings is belangrik omdat dit die oorbrugging vanaf mondeling na geskrewe taal is.
Dié uitsette dra by tot die behaal van die twee uitkomsaanwysers soos hierbo uitgebeeld.
Gooi asseblief hierdie goed weg as jy daarmee klaar is.
Sinskonstruksie en paragrafering mag foute bevat, maar opstel maak nog sin.
Kyk na hierdie twee voorbeelde:

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined969

Fields

Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:

  • client_id - hashed UUID of a given user

  • path - relative path of the audio file

  • text - supposed transcription of the audio

  • up_votes - number of people who said audio matches the text

  • down_votes - number of people who said audio does not match text

  • age - age of the speaker1

  • gender - gender of the speaker1

  • accent - accent of the speaker1

  • segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here

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Licence

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) licence. By downloading this data you agree to not determine the identity of speakers in the dataset.

Footnotes

  1. For a full list of age, gender, and accent options, see the demograpics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. 2 3