Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 1.0 - Sa'ban

Saʼban — Sa'ban (snv)

This datasheet is for version 1.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Sa'ban (snv). The dataset contains 2038 clips representing 11 hours of recorded speech (1 hours validated) from 30 speakers.

Language

Saʼban is an Austronesian language in the Apo Duat subgroup. It is spoken by the Saʼban people and is indigenous to Sarawak, Malaysia and North Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Data splits for modelling

Transcriptions

• Prompts: 120

• Duration: 37757736[ms]

• Avg. Transcription Len: 72

• Avg. Duration: 18.53[s]

• Valid Duration: 87.88[s]

• Total hours: 10.49[h]

• Valid hours: 0.02[h]

Writing system

The Saʼban writing system is based on the Latin alphabet.

Samples

Questions

There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.

Papah dut lun aweng parap nolong lun nok lah’ wan anok?
Kan nan acala ngan irau sinah nok nan lem tak bongma’ ceh mai? 
Um minot ceek mai pei’
Madei’ lem ayo’ atol papu’ duktun dong negala ceh
Kedutpah sawai ceh lem ayo’ langoi? Papah?

Responses

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

Lem nnau eek aa.. papah duet lem sieu hnai maa ee..teknologi  ee… yeh nah menye… menyebar aa..pesanan nok wei yeh nah lem ee… teknologi
mayak budaya tam lem aweng memang err nan err siu siu nok rah on lun err kira pa nan lun papuk err kudut irau krismas ka tahun baru ka err memang err mung lun lem aweng apalagi keluarga memang mei mayak lun mei ngan lun err lem masa nok nonoh dudut ai

Kai sik lem lun nok arok anok malak lem'rang ceh weik arai mrai padeik nok weik ndeh supaya deh weik lek hleu nok on deh malak jadi hleu

Recommended post-processing

The questions use the ’ character, while the responses use the ' character instead. These characters should be treated as equivalent.

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

• audio_id - numeric id for audio file

• audio_file - audio file name

• duration_ms - duration of audio in milliseconds

• prompt_id - numeric id for prompt

• prompt - question for user

• transcription - transcription of the audio response

• votes - number of people that who approved a given transcript

• age - age of the speaker1

• gender - gender of the speaker1

• language - language name

• split - for data modelling, which subset of the data does this clip pertain to

• char_per_sec - how many characters of transcription per second of audio

• quality_tags - some automated assessment of the transcription--audio pair, separated by |

  • transcription-length - character per second under 3 characters per second

  • speech-rate - characters per second over 30 characters per second

  • short-audio - audio length under 2 seconds

  • long-audio - audio length over 30 seconds

Get involved!

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

• Contribute questions

• Validate questions

• Answer questions

• Transcribe recordings

• Validate transcriptions

Acknowledgements

Funding

This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.

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 demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2