Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 3.0 - Puno Quechua

Punu qhichwa — Puno Quechua (qxp)

This datasheet is for sps-corpus-3.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Puno Quechua [Punu qhichwa - qxp]. The dataset contains 7286 clips representing 35.3 hours of recorded speech (5.18 hours validated) from 110 speakers.

Language

Puno Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qxp, belongs to the Quechua II group. The 2017 National Census in Peru estimates approximately 474203 speaker of Puno Quechua, predominantly in the Puno region of Peru.

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: 1,074 of 1,074 transcribed & validated clips (100.0%)

Transcriptions

Transcription status

Writing system

The writting system for the Puno Quechua language is not formaly described, however there are some resources that can be mentioned. Linguistic resources for Puno Quechua, as cataloged by Glottolog puno1238, are predominantly from the 1963–1993 period, with limited publications post-2005. These materials offer critical insights into the Puno Quechua language's grammatical framework. Like all Quechua languages, Puno Quechua forms words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.

Samples

Questions

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

1. Kamputa sut'inchay, imachus kan chaykunata.

2. Imaynatataq qhawanki tecnologíata hamuq watakunapi?

3. Imamantataq qhaliraq kashanki?

4. Huqmanta chunkakama yupay.

5. Ima mikhuykunatan mana mikhuyta munankichu?

Responses

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

1. Nuqa hatun Yachay Wasita tukuspa, Punu llaqtapi llank'ayta munani, hinaspapis p'achata qhatuyta munani.

2. Phishqa qhipa watakunapiqa yachapakusharqani Hatun Yachaywasipi, ichaqa chayllamanmi Pandimiya nisqa hamurqan suyunchisman. Chaymi sasachakuykunata apamurqan.

3. T'ipinayuq kayqa allinmi kay timpukunapiqa, porque chaymanta willarinakunchis ima willakuykunatapis, chhaynallataq ima yachaykunatapis tapurikunchis eh celulartaqa ratulla chaninchayamuwanchis.

4. Imaraykutaq, Tiyuspaq kamasqanrayku, p'unchaytaq yuraqman, tutataq azulman; Tiyusñischispaq kamasqanrayku.

5. Chaymi kashan: tarpuy pacha, ruphay pacha, chakuy pacha, chiri pacha.

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

• QuechuaBase telegram group

• 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

• Elwin Huaman <elwin.huaman@hotmail.com>

Citation guidelines

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:

    @inproceedings{HuamanHHQ25,
    author       = {Elwin Huaman and
                    Jorge Luis Huaman and
                    Wendi Huaman and
                    Ninfa Quispe},
    title        = {Quechua Speech Datasets in Common Voice: The Case of Puno Quechua},
    booktitle    = {Information Management and Big Data - 12th Annual International Conference, SIMBig 2025, Lima, Peru, October 29-31, 2025, Proceedings},
    series       = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},  
    publisher    = {Springer},
    year         = {2025},
    }

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