Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Alsatian

Elsassisch — Alsatian (gsw)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Alsatian [Elsassisch - gsw]. The dataset contains 1043 clips representing 1.65 hours of recorded speech (0.63 hours validated) from 37 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 92 sentences.

Language

Elsassisch (Alsatian in English, Alsacien in French) is a language spoken in the Alsace region in the East of France. As of 2022, 46 % of the population of the region declares speaking Alsatian. The term Alsatian refers to a linguistic continuum that includes varieties of Alemannic and Franconian. It shares the Alemannic language family with Swiss German and the Franconian language family with Luxembourgish.

Note on the language code : There is currently no language code for specifically Alsatian. GSW is the code of Swiss German. However, the Common Voice community for Swiss German has chosen to be included under the umbrella of German, and thus isn't using the language code. It has been agreed to use GSW for Alsatian in the context of Common Voice. This does not mean that Alsatian is the same as Swiss German (even if some features are shared), and care should be taken to not mix up the two languages.

Variants

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: 491 of 1,043 clips (47.1%), 16 of 37 speakers (43.2%)

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: 922 of 1,043 clips (88.4%), 28 of 37 speakers (75.7%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 87 of 400 validated clips (21.8%)

The dataset contains 400 validated, 53 invalidated, and 590 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.716 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 87

The corpus contains 92 sentences: 87 validated and 5 unvalidated (4 pending review, 1 rejected), with 2 reported for review.

Sample

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

1. Dü wärsch besser ùff d'r Manüfaktür geblìwwe.

2. Brüch mer nix ze saje, isch weiss scho B'scheid!

3. Ìch weiss absolument nìtt, wàs dü do dran üsszesetze hesch.

4. D’r Moment fer àlles ze saawe, ìsch schneller kùmme, wie ich gedenkt hàb.

5. No kànn's mìr erscht rächt gfàlle do hüsse

Sources

Text domains

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