Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - English

Locale: en

Size: 86.83 GB

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

License: CC-0


English — English (en)

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This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for English (en). The dataset contains 2541751 clips representing 3746 hours of recorded speech (2682 hours validated) from 98579 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
Undefined39.0%
Male Masculine44.0%
Female Feminine18.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined36.0%
Twenties25.0%
Thirties14.0%
Teens6.0%
Fourties9.0%
Fifties5.0%
Sixties4.0%
Seventies1.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 63.16% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train1143276
Test16402
Dev16402

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 1716010 sentences, of which 1680665 are validated, 35345 are invalidated and 9705 are reported.

Sample

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

Bio spent seven years at Bo School, rising to become school Prefect.
His philosophical and philological critiques of Neo-Confucianism continue to be influential.
It will then follow it exact same routing back to Bethesda.
The Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park includes three cemeteries.
These are called "un-cemented", "air-spaced" or "broken contact" doublets.

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined2540653
Agriculture Food148
Automotive Transport8
Finance43
Service Retail28
General583
Healthcare24
History Law Government102
Language Fundamentals9
Media Entertainment106
Nature Environment41
News Current Affairs13
Technology Robotics88

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