Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 1.0 - French
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 12 MB
Description
A collection of spontaneous spoken phrases in French.
Specifics
Considerations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
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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
Français — French (fr)
This datasheet is for version 1.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset
for French (fr). The dataset contains 133 clips representing 1 hours of recorded
speech (1 hours validated) from 14 speakers.
Language
French is a Romance language. It is the official language of 26 countries and is spoken across around 50 countries.
Transcriptions
Prompts:
81Duration:
2142792[ms]Avg. Transcription Len:
98Avg. Duration:
16.11[s]Valid Duration:
983.77[s]Total hours:
0.6[h]Valid hours:
0.27[h]
Writing system
The French language uses the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet with the addition of two ligatures (æ, œ) and five diacritics.
Symbol table
a à â æ b c ç d e é è ê ë f g h i î ï j k l m n ô œ p q r s t u ù û ü v w x y ÿ z
Samples
Questions
There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.
Pouvez-vous décrire l'un de vos hobbies et nous expliquer en quoi il consiste ?
Les gens de différents âges utilisent-ils la technologie de manière différente ?
Est-ce que vous trouvez le temps de lire ?
Comment vous détendez-vous et gardez-vous votre esprit en santé ?
Quelle est votre fête préférée et pourquoi ?
Responses
There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.
On tourne en boucle, j'ai déjà répondu à cette question, sauf que maintenant c'est au pluriel, je reste sur l'anglais, c'est ma matière préférée, c'était l'anglais et pourquoi, parce que j'aimais ça.
Oui !
Je suis pas sûr de comprendre la question mais j'ai l'impression qu'oui, après c'est, c'est très difficile l'apprentissage des langues en français en général, parce que c'est, ouais, c'est plutôt la merde en général.
Oui, mais avec le gouvernement Bayrou de moins en moins et il y a toujours une attaque sur la question sociale qui est faite ; heureusement il y a les syndicats, hum, derrière mais c'est... Il y a une attaque en règle en tout cas sur la protection sociale en France.
Recommended post-processing
The transcripts contain two different apostrophes, ’ and ', which should be normalized.
Fields
Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:
client_id- hashed UUID of a given useraudio_id- numeric id for audio fileaudio_file- audio file nameduration_ms- duration of audio in millisecondsprompt_id- numeric id for promptprompt- question for usertranscription- transcription of the audio responsevotes- number of people that who approved a given transcriptage- age of the speaker1gender- gender of the speaker1language- language namesplit- for data modelling, which subset of the data does this clip pertain tochar_per_sec- how many characters of transcription per second of audioquality_tags- some automated assessment of the transcription--audio pair, separated by|transcription-length- character per second under 3 characters per secondspeech-rate- characters per second over 30 characters per secondshort-audio- audio length under 2 secondslong-audio- audio length over 30 seconds
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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 demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2
