Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 3.0 - Bahasa Malay

Bahasa Malay — Bahasa Malay (ms-MY)

This datasheet is for sps-corpus-3.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Bahasa Malay [Bahasa Malay - ms-MY]. The dataset contains 1150 clips representing 6.19 hours of recorded speech (5.63 hours validated) from 24 speakers.

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: 1,054 of 1,054 transcribed & validated clips (100.0%)

Transcriptions

Transcription status

Samples

Questions

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

1. Di manakah yang boleh dianggap percutian atau pengembaraan ideal anda?

2. Huraikan tentang objek kreatif, cantik atau hiasan yang anda miliki

3. Apakah pakaian yang anda suka pakai?

4. Apakah yang anda rasa tentang penyertaan dalam sukan berpasukan berbanding sukan individu?

5. Siapakah artis atau tukang tempatan yang anda kagumi?

Responses

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

1. Ya, amat mudah untuk memulakan perniagaan di negara saya, sekiranya ia memenuhi syarat yang ditetapkan oleh kerajaan dan mempunyai modal yang mencukupi.

2. Serangga terbesar yang pernah saya jumpa semasa saya kecil dahulu adalah sejenis lipan yang dipanggil lipan bara. Lipan tersebut akan muncul semasa banjir di kampung dan ia agak besar.

3. Perayaan yang saya menghadiri adalah hari raya.

4. Ya, untuk kekal sihat, saya sangat berharap jika saya boleh berjalan sebanyak sepuluh ribu langkah setiap hari tanpa gagal.

5. Saya jarang bermain permainan berpapan atau permainan video atau permainan kad. Tapi saya pernah main permainan video seperti Freedom Frenzy dan Angry Bird. Selain itu, permainan kad yang saya main adalah seperti One Happy Family, dan banyak lagi, tapi saya sudah lupa.

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

• 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

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