Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Nepali

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 3/22/2026

Format: MP3

Size: 38.98 MB


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Description

A collection of read speech recordings in Nepali (नेपाली).

Specifics

Licensing

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

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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

नेपाली — Nepali (ne-NP)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Nepali [नेपाली - ne-NP]. The dataset contains 1694 clips representing 1.93 hours of recorded speech (1.34 hours validated) from 61 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 1,346 sentences.

Language

Accents

CodeAccentClipsSpeakers
-406 (24.0%)11 (18.0%)

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.

CodeGenderClipsSpeakers
male_masculineMale, masculine1,026 (60.6%)15 (24.6%)
female_feminineFemale, feminine16 (0.9%)3 (4.9%)
transgenderTransgender--
non-binaryNon-binary--
do_not_wish_to_sayPrefer not to say--
-Unspecified652 (38.5%)47 (77.0%)

Gender declared: 1,042 of 1,694 clips (61.5%), 14 of 61 speakers (23.0%)

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.

CodeAgeClipsSpeakers
teensTeens--
twentiesTwenties962 (56.8%)19 (31.1%)
thirtiesThirties209 (12.3%)5 (8.2%)
fourtiesFourties--
fiftiesFifties--
sixtiesSixties--
seventiesSeventies--
eightiesEighties--
ninetiesNineties--
-Unspecified523 (30.9%)41 (67.2%)

Age declared: 1,171 of 1,694 clips (69.1%), 20 of 61 speakers (32.8%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

BucketClips
Validated1,181 (69.7%)
Invalidated100 (5.9%)
Other413 (24.4%)

Training splits

SplitClips
Train355 (30.1%)
Dev314 (26.6%)
Test289 (24.5%)

Training split coverage: 958 of 1,181 validated clips (81.1%)

The dataset contains 1181 validated, 100 invalidated, and 413 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 4.111 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 1,316

CategoryCount
Unvalidated sentences30
Pending sentences24
Rejected sentences6
Reported sentences5

The corpus contains 1,346 sentences: 1,316 validated and 30 unvalidated (24 pending review, 6 rejected), with 5 reported for review.

Sample

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

  1. कृष्ण हुन् कि क्राइस्ट हुन्, सबैका कथामा मपाईंकै गाथा सुनिन्छ।

  2. हामी भन्छौ मात्रै चाउचाउ र विस्कुट का खोल मिल्काउन पछि पर्दैनौ ।

  3. राजकुमारले सोधे, “कसरी तिमी मेरा दाजु हौ ?”

  4. चित्त दुखेको हो दाई?

  5. राजकुमारको सपना पनि टुट्यो ।

Sources

Text domains

CodeDomainClipsSpeakers
generalGeneral--
agriculture_foodAgriculture and Food1 (0.1%)1 (1.6%)
automotive_transportAutomotive and Transport--
financeFinance--
service_retailService and Retail--
healthcareHealthcare--
history_law_governmentHistory, Law and Government--
media_entertainmentMedia and Entertainment--
nature_environmentNature and Environment--
news_current_affairsNews and Current Affairs--
technology_roboticsTechnology and Robotics--
language_fundamentalsLanguage Fundamentals--

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)

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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