Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 2.0 - Manx

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License:

CC0-1.0

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Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 15.35 MB

Description

A collection of spontaneous spoken phrases in Manx.

Specifics

Licensing

CC0 1.0 Universal

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

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

Gaelg — Manx (gv)

This datasheet is for version 2.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Manx (gv). The dataset contains 130 clips representing 1 hours of recorded speech (0 hours validated) from 1 speakers.

Language

Manx is the indgenous Celtic language of the Isle of Man, closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It has used a unique orthography from at least the seventeenth century. It is spoken by at least 2,000 speakers today (2025).

Transcriptions

  • Prompts: 130

  • Duration: 0:46:10 [h:m:s]

  • Avg. Duration: 21.32[s]

  • Valid Duration: 0.0[s]

  • Total hours: 0.77[h]

  • Valid hours: 0.0[h]

Writing system

The Manx orthography used today is based on the Manx orthography of the Manx Bible of 1775, and the Cregeen Dictionary of 1838, although many of the diacritcs are omitted these days.

Symbol table

a â b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t ç h u v w y

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

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Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

  • Rob Teare

  • David Allison

  • Daniel Quayle

  • Paul Rogers

Funding

Mozilla

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