Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Southern Sotho

Sesotho sa Borwa — Southern Sotho (st)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Southern Sotho [Sesotho sa Borwa - st]. The dataset contains 209 clips representing 0.18 hours of recorded speech (0 hours validated) from 2 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 17,176 sentences.

Language

Accents

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following self-declared age and gender distributions. A coverage summary is shown below each table.

Gender

Self-declared gender information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare a gender are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.

Gender declared: 149 of 209 clips (71.3%), 1 of 2 speakers (50.0%)

Age

Self-declared age information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare an age are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.

Age declared: 209 of 209 clips (100.0%), 2 of 2 speakers (100.0%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 4 of 4 validated clips (100.0%)

The dataset contains 4 validated, 1 invalidated, and 204 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 3.223 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 2,339

The corpus contains 17,176 sentences: 2,339 validated and 14,837 unvalidated (14,837 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.

1. Mantswe a kgaitsedi ya hae ke a puopehelo.

2. Banna ba lapeng leno ke majakane.

3. Na batho ba lokela ho lefella metsi?

4. Ebe o e ngola ka makgethe ka tlase.

5. Boholo ba mosebetsi ona bo a tswella.

Sources

Fields

Clips

Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:

• client_id - hashed UUID of a given user

• path - relative path of the audio file

• text - supposed transcription of the audio

• up_votes - number of people who said audio matches the text

• down_votes - number of people who said audio does not match text

• age - age of the speaker1

• gender - gender of the speaker1

• accents - accents of the speaker1

• variant - variant of the language1

• segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here

• prompt_upvotes - number of upvotes the sentence prompt received

• prompt_reports - number of reports the sentence prompt received

• is_edited - whether the clip's transcription has been edited

validated_sentences.tsv

The validated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per validated sentence in the text corpus:

• sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence

• sentence - the sentence text

• variant - the variant of the language

• sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to

• source - the source the sentence was collected from

• is_used - whether the sentence is still in circulation for recording

• clips_count - number of clips recorded for this sentence

unvalidated_sentences.tsv

The unvalidated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per unvalidated sentence in the text corpus:

• sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence

• sentence - the sentence text

• variant - the variant of the language

• sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to

• source - the source the sentence was collected from

• up_votes - number of upvotes the sentence received

• down_votes - number of downvotes the sentence received

• status - current status of the sentence (pending or rejected)

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

• Speak

• Write

• Listen

• Review

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 ↩3 ↩4