Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 2.0 - Galician

Galego — Galician (gl)

This datasheet is for version 2.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Galician (gl). The dataset contains 238 clips representing 2 hours of recorded speech (1 hours validated) from 15 speakers.

Language

Galician is the language of Galicia (Spain). In addition to being a language of use in this territory, it is spoken in other bordering areas, although without official status (Asturias, León, Zamora). It belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically the Romance languages, along with Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan. It also has a close relationship with Portuguese since they share historical origins, but today they constitute two separate languages with each one having its own respective standard. The state of vitality of the language is “Institutional” according to Ethnologue https://www.ethnologue.com/language/glg/, that is, the language is developed, has a standard variety, is taught at all stages of the Galician educational system and has institutional support. However, from the point of view of sociolinguistics, both the autonomous community of Galicia and the other territories that speak the Galician language present typical features of a situation of linguistic conflict (diglossia), resulting from a historical process of replacement of Galician (a minority language) by Spanish.

The Galician language is a rich and diverse reality, and its linguistic variation is manifested in spontaneous speech. Thus, aspects such as age, geography, sociocultural level or communicative context also influence linguistic uses. At the dialectal level, Galician presents differentiating features between the eastern and western areas, as well as between the north and the south: phonetic changes (such as the use of gheada or seseo), lexical variations (different words to designate the same object) or even small morpho-syntactic differences.

Transcriptions

• Prompts: 166

• Duration: 1:09:38 [h:m:s]

• Avg. Transcription Len: 157

• Avg. Duration: 17.56[s]

• Valid Duration: 378.828[s]

• Total hours: 1.16[h]

• Valid hours: 0.11[h]

Writing system

The writing system of Galician is based on the Latin alphabet, like other Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese or French). Its orthography is regulated by the corresponding regional institutions that establish the official rules of use (NOMIG).

Galician uses the 23 letters of the basic Latin alphabet: 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and 18 consonants. The vowel system of Galician is composed of seven oral vowels (/a/, /e/, /ɛ/, /i/, /o/, /ɔ/ and /u/), as the mid vowels ("e" and "o") have two possible pronunciations: open (/ɛ/, /ɔ/) and closed (/e/, /o/). At the consonant level, the letters Ç, J, K, W and Y are supported in foreign words, proper names, abbreviations and international acronyms. The Galician alphabet also has numerous digraphs: combinations of two letters that represent a single sound: "ch", "gu", "ll", "nh", "qu", "rr". In addition, the presence of the phoneme /ʃ/ represented by the letter “x”, the fricative sound /ʒ/, the distinction between /s/ and /θ/ which depends on the dialect areas, the gheada, etc., should be highlighted in the Galician consonant system.

Accentuation in Galician is quite regular and follows clear rules. A graphic "diacritical accent" is also used to distinguish pairs of words with the same spelling but different meanings, e.g., bóla (sphere, ball), bola (round type of bread).

Symbol table

a, á, b, c, d, e, é, f, g, h, i, í, ï, l, m, n, o, ó, p, q, r, s, t, u, ú, ü, v, x, z

Samples

Questions

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

Estendes a roupa nun tendal ou métela nunha secadora?
Que pensas dos deberes escolares?
Sabes facer algunha manualidade?
Sabes algunha adiviña?
Que estilo de roupa che gusta?

Responses

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

Pois depende, [vacilacións] normalemente uso un tendal, tendo a roupa, pero pra certo tipo de prendas ou en certas circunstancias de moita choiva pois ponse unha secadora tamén.
[ruído de fondo persistente] sempre e cando [vacilación] permitan que os nenos e nenas tamén desfruten de ocio e de xogo [vacilación] se són pois algunhas tarefas [vacilación] curtas e pequenas parécenme ben.
Algunha sei facer. Ben non, pero algunha, fago.
Verde por fóra, branca por dentro... [vacilación] [risa] e que non me lembro
Non teño un gusto definido... en relación á roupa [vacilación]. Roupa normal [vacilación]: pantalóns vaqueiros [vacilación], unha- unha camiseta, un- un xersei e u- un casaco no inverno [vacilación]. Normalmente iando con roupa de traballo... E- non teño unha resposta pra isto.

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

• Original language request on GitHub

• Doar a miña voz

Contribute

• Contribute questions

• Validate questions

• Answer questions

• Transcribe recordings

• Validate transcriptions

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

• Adina Ioana Vladu <adina.vladu@usc.gal>

• María Pérez Lago

Funding

This dataset was compiled by Instituto da Lingua Galega (Galician Language Institute) as part of Proxecto Nós. The work was funded by Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, with support from the European Union through NextGenerationEU, under the ILENIA Project (reference 2022/TL22/00215336).

Additional funding was provided by Xunta de Galicia through the programme Axudas de consolidación e estruturación de unidades de investigación competitivas to the research group Filoloxía e Lingüística Galega (ED431C 2025/13), as well as by Ministerio de Cultura.

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