Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - French

Locale: fr

Size: 27.87 GB

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

License: CC-0


Français — French (fr)

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This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for French (fr). The dataset contains 849826 clips representing 1189 hours of recorded speech (1072 hours validated) from 20794 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
Undefined33.0%
Male Masculine57.0%
Female Feminine11.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined38.0%
Twenties17.0%
Thirties15.0%
Teens3.0%
Fourties13.0%
Fifties9.0%
Sixties3.0%
Seventies1.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 82.14% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train598539
Test16190
Dev16190

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 1692781 sentences, of which 1648986 are validated, 43795 are invalidated and 7569 are reported.

Sample

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

Beaucoup de collectionneurs pensent que c'est sa tête qui est représentée.
Plus tard, on m'applaudissait ; quand j'étais placée, tout le parterre se soulevait.
Mais Christ, sur le poteau du fatal carrefour
Il est le fils de Louis Le Chatelier.
L'action d'évaluer transforme la perception des choses auxquelles elle s'applique.

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined849722
Automotive Transport100.0%
Finance100.0%
General67
Healthcare5
History Law Government19
Language Fundamentals7
Media Entertainment16
Nature Environment8
News Current Affairs2
Technology Robotics18

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