Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 3.0 - Manx

gv — Manx (gv)

This datasheet is for sps-corpus-3.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Manx [gv - gv]. The dataset contains 130 clips representing 0.76 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).

Data splits for modelling

The dataset clips are categorised by transcription status and training-set assignment. The following tables summarise the distribution.

Audio clips

Training splits

Training split coverage: 0 of 0 transcribed & validated clips (0.0%)

Transcriptions

Transcription status

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

Samples

Questions

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

1. Cur coontey jeh'n charrey smoo neuyerkit ayd.

2. Quoid dy çhaghteraghtyn post-l neu-lhaihit t'ayd dy cliaghtagh?

3. Dy voddagh oo loayrt rish peiagh erbee veih shennaghys, quoi yinnagh oo loayrt roo?

4. Cre ta cur yn olk ort?

5. Ayns cre'n lhing haink yn chiaull share magh?

Responses

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

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 5 minutes

Get involved

Community links

• Learn Manx

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

• Common Voice Communities

Discussions

• Common Voice on Matrix

• Common Voice on Discourse

• Common Voice on Discord

• Common Voice on Telegram

Contribute

• Contribute questions

• Validate questions

• Answer questions

• Transcribe recordings

• Validate transcriptions

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