Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Dholuo

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CC0-1.0

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Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 2.23 GB


Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Dholuo.

Considerations

Forbidden Usage

It is forbidden to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the common Voice datasets. It is forbidden to re-host or re-share this 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

[Dholuo] — Dholuo (luo)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Dholuo (luo). The dataset contains 82738 clips representing 119.61 hours of recorded speech (29.4 hours validated) from 47 speakers.

Language

Variants

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.

GenderPercentage
Undefined60.0%
Female Feminine40.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined36.0%
Twenties33.0%
Thirties28.0%
Fifties2.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 51.90% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train4498
Test3001
Dev3060

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 38548 sentences, of which 24678 are validated, 13870 are invalidated and 8 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

Piny mar Afrika ni gi thuolo moloyo pinje 
Bende dwarore ni warit ler mar ringruok.
Ohala otame rito
Nokwedo wuon arus Zaina Chudi kuom bendo ng'ama wuondore. 
en mor wa yudo weche majiwowa

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined11
Agriculture Food1135
Automotive Transport341
Finance967
Service Retail2748
General69488
Healthcare2237
History Law Government865
Language Fundamentals555
Media Entertainment806
Nature Environment634
News Current Affairs2710
Technology Robotics241

Processing

Recommended post-processing

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

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Acknowledgements

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Funding

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