Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Min Nan Chinese (Taiwan)

台語 — Taiwanese (Minnan) (nan-tw)

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This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Taiwanese (Minnan) (nan-tw). The dataset contains 31951 clips representing 24 hours of recorded speech (21 hours validated) from 290 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.

Age

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

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 81.31% are included in the splits.

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 27277 sentences, of which 26907 are validated, 370 are invalidated and 226 are reported.

Sample

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

喙（tshuì）
乞食趕廟公（khit-chia̍h kóaⁿ biō-kong）
鹿港人講話無相仝（Lo̍k-káng lâng kóng uē bô sio-kâng）
功夫到厝，欲食就有（kang-hu kàu tshù, beh tsia̍h tio̍h ū）
人食一點氣（lâng tsia̍h tsi̍t tiám khuì）

Text domains

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

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

• Original language request on GitHub

Contribute

• Speak

• Write

• Listen

• Review

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