Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Taiwanese (Minnan)
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 458.10 MB
Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Taiwanese (Minnan).
Specifics
Considerations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
You agree that you will not re-host or re-share this dataset
Forbidden Usage
You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset
Processes
Intended Use
This dataset is intended to be used for training and evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. It may also be used for applications relating to computer-aided language learning (CALL) and language or heritage revitalisation.
Metadata
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.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 26.0% |
| Male Masculine | 63.0% |
| Female Feminine | 11.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 13.0% |
| Twenties | 50.0% |
| Thirties | 15.0% |
| Teens | 1.0% |
| Fourties | 17.0% |
| Fifties | 1.0% |
| Sixties | 2.0% |
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.
| Split | Count |
|---|---|
| Train | 11584 |
| Test | 6523 |
| Dev | 5705 |
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
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 31563 |
| Agriculture Food | 4 |
| Service Retail | 2 |
| General | 327 |
| Healthcare | 100.0% |
| Language Fundamentals | 55 |
| Nature Environment | 55 |
Fields
Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:
client_id- hashed UUID of a given userpath- relative path of the audio filetext- supposed transcription of the audioup_votes- number of people who said audio matches the textdown_votes- number of people who said audio does not match textage- age of the speaker1gender- gender of the speaker1accent- accent of the speaker1segment- 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
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
