Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 3.0 - Kenyi
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Common VoiceTask: ASR
Release Date: 3/20/2026
Format: MP3
Size: 254.56 MB
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Description
A collection of spontaneous responses to questions in Kenyi (lke).
Specifics
Considerations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
None provided.
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
lke — Kenyi (lke)
This datasheet is for sps-corpus-3.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Kenyi [lke - lke]. The dataset contains 2743 clips representing 12.38 hours of recorded speech (9.95 hours validated) from 26 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
| Bucket | Clips | % |
|---|---|---|
| Transcribed & Validated | 2,269 | 82.7% |
| Transcribed & Pending | 11 | 0.4% |
| Not transcribed | 463 | 16.9% |
Training splits
| Bucket | Clips | % |
|---|---|---|
| Train | 1,526 | 55.6% |
| Dev | 399 | 14.5% |
| Test | 344 | 12.5% |
| Unassigned | 474 | 17.3% |
Training split coverage: 2,269 of 2,269 transcribed & validated clips (100.0%)
Transcriptions
Transcription status
| Bucket | Clips | % |
|---|---|---|
| Validated | 2,269 | 99.5% |
| Pending | 11 | 0.5% |
| Edited | 879 | 38.5% |
Samples
Questions
There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.
Lwaki abantu mu byaalo ebindi bafuna empuza ate basobola batia okujewala?
Okubere engeri amaka go owegakuremberia okweega owaika.
Emirundi imeka ejensobola okuchalira eidwaliro okwemulika?
Otaaka okwega ebyamawaanga agaandi?
Oyabangaku munsi ejobweru? nga bityo waina?
Responses
There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.
Amaka amazimbe okusa, galeta omutindo kukyaalo.
Okusoma kutwegesia engeri yo okukuma eyitakali liyaisu
*Nga nakazuka nsoka kunaba mumaiso no nenkuta amaino Kaisi awo nitandika okola emirimu jonajona. *
Basobola nga aa babulira abantu ekyo'kola
Omuntu oyo ayinza okuba nga atakire a a a ataka okuba naiwe naye akulaga wano omukyeni kye akulaga amasanyu muntu muasanyufu ino ataka okuba naiwe
Fields
Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:
client_id- hashed UUID of a given useraudio_id- numeric id for audio fileaudio_file- audio file nameduration_ms- duration of audio in millisecondsprompt_id- numeric id for promptprompt- question for usertranscription- transcription of the audio responsevotes- number of people that who approved a given transcriptage- age of the speaker1gender- gender of the speaker1language- language namesplit- for data modelling, which subset of the data does this clip pertain tochar_per_sec- how many characters of transcription per second of audioquality_tags- some automated assessment of the transcription--audio pair, separated by|transcription-length- character per second under 3 characters per secondspeech-rate- characters per second over 30 characters per secondshort-audio- audio length under 2 secondslong-audio- audio length over 5 minutes
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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
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