Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Yoruba

License:

CC0-1.0

Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 3/22/2026

Format: MP3

Size: 162.99 MB

Description

A collection of read speech recordings in Yoruba (Yòrùbá).

Specifics

Licensing

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

https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html

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

Yòrùbá — Yoruba (`yo`)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Yoruba [Yòrùbá - yo]. The dataset contains 4854 clips representing 8.14 hours of recorded speech (5.82 hours validated) from 133 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 5,436 sentences.

Language

Accents

Code	Accent	Clips	Speakers
-		447 (9.2%)	6 (4.5%)

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.

Code	Gender	Clips	Speakers
male_masculine	Male, masculine	1,440 (29.7%)	16 (12.0%)
female_feminine	Female, feminine	1,788 (36.8%)	27 (20.3%)
transgender	Transgender	-	-
non-binary	Non-binary	-	-
do_not_wish_to_say	Prefer not to say	-	-
-	Unspecified	1,626 (33.5%)	110 (82.7%)

Gender declared: 3,228 of 4,854 clips (66.5%), 23 of 133 speakers (17.3%)

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.

Code	Age	Clips	Speakers
teens	Teens	199 (4.1%)	3 (2.3%)
twenties	Twenties	2,959 (61.0%)	36 (27.1%)
thirties	Thirties	145 (3.0%)	8 (6.0%)
fourties	Fourties	5 (0.1%)	1 (0.8%)
fifties	Fifties	114 (2.3%)	1 (0.8%)
sixties	Sixties	15 (0.3%)	1 (0.8%)
seventies	Seventies	-	-
eighties	Eighties	-	-
nineties	Nineties	-	-
-	Unspecified	1,417 (29.2%)	106 (79.7%)

Age declared: 3,437 of 4,854 clips (70.8%), 27 of 133 speakers (20.3%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Bucket	Clips
Validated	3,470 (71.5%)
Invalidated	264 (5.4%)
Other	1,120 (23.1%)

Training splits

Split	Clips
Train	1,422 (41.0%)
Dev	975 (28.1%)
Test	1,071 (30.9%)

Training split coverage: 3,468 of 3,470 validated clips (99.9%)

The dataset contains 3470 validated, 264 invalidated, and 1120 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 6.04 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 5,419

Category	Count
Unvalidated sentences	17
Pending sentences	17
Rejected sentences	-
Reported sentences	21

The corpus contains 5,436 sentences: 5,419 validated and 17 unvalidated (17 pending review, 0 rejected), with 21 reported for review.

Sample

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

Alága Ìgbìmọ̀ pàsẹ fún Ọdún kó jáde kúrò nínú ìpàdé náà.
Gómìnà wa kọ̀wé fipò sílẹ̀ látàrí pé wọn fi ẹ̀sùn kàn án.
Abala ke̟ta.
Inú mí dùn bí wọ́n ṣe mú Ọlá àti Adé.
Ìgbìmọ̀ Àgbààgbà Yorùbá ké sí Ààrẹ pé kó kọ̀wé fipò sílẹ̀.

Sources

Source	Sentences
sentence-collector	5,411 (99.9%)
Other	8 (0.1%)

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

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