Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 2.0 - Gheg Albanian

Gheg Albanian — Gheg Albanian (aln)

This datasheet is for version 2.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Gheg Albanian (aln). The dataset contains 1654 clips representing 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.

Data splits for modelling

Transcriptions

• Prompts: 144

• Duration: 10:51:51 [h:m:s]

• Avg. Transcription Len: 216

• Avg. Duration: 23.65[s]

• Valid Duration: 37793.736[s]

• Total hours: 10.86[h]

• Valid hours: 10.5[h]

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:

• <Ε> was used in place of standard Albanian <ë> /ǝ/

• <C> was used in place of standard Albanian <ç> /tš/

• <gh> was used to represent /γ/

• <hj> was used to represent /ç/

Samples

Questions

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

Pse menon se qielli asht blu?
Masi ke ba familje ça ke ba?
Çar lloj sporti t’ pëlqen me ndjek?
Cila asht shpresa jote ma e madhe për të arthmen?
Pse hikin njerzit nga ktu dhe shkojn diku tjetër?

Responses

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

Qielli blu nul mw pwlqen, vetwm ko koha vrant asht pak qef, asht pak i zi, shishto mana mir, qielli blu, shishto.... 
Po kur ban robi familjen, krijon zoti familjen, Ca me ba, merret e rrit fmin, ... fmijn Ca me ba tjetwr, na njerzit e thjesht s kena Ca me ba tjetwr...
I ndjek tana, me futboll, me volejboll, tana, po ma t bukra m pwlqejn kto, gjimnastikat e kto gjanat  kshtu qi jan, jan me spektakwl.
Cila wsht shpresa jote mw e madhe pwr tw ardhmen?  Shpresa ime pwr tw ardhmen Ca t bij i madhi zot, Ca ta bie zoti un e pres, dgjo mu, po ta dha zoti, zoti e di riskun e tana gjanat zoti i di, pwr Cdo gja.  
pwr njiii jet ma t mir, pse kto jan, a bo jeta zor, mana. Pwr ikonomin, edhe shto... pse a zor... kto.

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

• Answer spontaneous questions

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

• Antonios Dimakis <a.dimakis@athenarc.gr>

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