Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 1.0 - Gheg Albanian

Specifics

Licensing

CC0-1.0

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

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

Gegnisht — Gheg Albanian (`aln`)

This datasheet is for version 1.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Gheg Albanian (aln). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 14 speakers.

Language

Gheg Albanian (/ɡɛɡ/) is an Albanian dialect group spoken in northern and central Albania, Kosovo, northwestern North Macedonia, southeastern Montenegro, southern Serbia and southwestern Croatia. Identified by the ISO 639-3 code aln, it belongs to the Indo-European language family. There are estimated to be around four million speakers. There is no widely accepted writing system.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Age

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

Transcriptions

The transcription of the entire dataset was done by a single individual, using the following guidelines:

In general, the standard Albanian writing system was used, with the following exceptions:

`` was used in place of standard Albanian /ǝ/
`` was used in place of standard Albanian /tš/
`` was used to represent /γ/
`` was used to represent /ç/

Questions

There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.

Çar shifni ju n’ televizor?
Çar lloj lojrash ju pëlqejshin me lujt kalamajve kur ishin t’ vegjël?
Kur ke marr telefon për her t’ par?

Responses

There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.

Contribute

Datasheet authors

Antonios Dimakis

Funding

This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund.

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.