Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 2.0 - Kuku

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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: 233.85 MB


Description

A collection of spontaneous spoken phrases in Kuku.

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

Kuku — Kuku (ukv)

This datasheet has been generated automatically, we would love to include more information, if you would like to help out, get in touch!

This datasheet is for version 2.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Kuku (ukv). The dataset contains 2575 clips representing 12 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 22 speakers.

Data splits for modelling

SplitCount
Train1430
Test401
Dev408

Transcriptions

  • Prompts: 119

  • Duration: 11:54:50 [h:m:s]

  • Avg. Transcription Len: 142

  • Avg. Duration: 16.66[s]

  • Valid Duration: 36560.124[s]

  • Total hours: 11.91[h]

  • Valid hours: 10.16[h]

Samples

Questions

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

Ŋo wöriyet logoŋ  ropa kuʼdik lo a nyo?
Ti ŋutuʼ luwalet lo ködö temaniʼ tema ret lo sukariya lo daŋin muda?
Kita nagoŋ kaʼdolak ti keriyat a kon kasu yi gboke ni na avnyo?
Nan ŋona bubulö rereŋgu kuwa ko kimur yi diŋit na toto dinyo?
Do ŋona a met kenda na yi toʼdurjö na wate kodeʼ ŋojik nawate kasu mede ni?
Responses

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

ŋo woriyet na ropa ku'dik na a gari
ŋutu' luwalet lo ködö tetema ret lo sukaria lo yi diŋitan liŋ naŋ lepeŋ a yiŋga tomiyesi kode' gayeeresi kanyit yi mugun ni
A tikinda na ŋutulu na gboŋ a boŋo yi keriat kase 
dó bubulä reregu kuwá ko kimur i diŋit na toto i kikolin jore togeleŋ na ti do totoni lemesia kata nagon a ruwä ko wini tomurek na piyoŋ loŋ liliwa i porogo no kulo ti riyajini yu to musala na mudiŋan lo gboŋ konuk i mede nyoga kulo ti gbutani kak 
kenda na a ŋo nagologiti na'but kega i tokenda na̵ ŋojik nawate ko ŋutu wate bgenge kaŋ mede ni na mede niyaŋ 'durjö ko kulya ti kenda na ŋojik nawate 

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

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