Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Jaqaru

jqr — Jaqaru (jqr)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Jaqaru [jqr - jqr]. The dataset contains 6254 clips representing 10.24 hours of recorded speech (9.92 hours validated) from 12 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 999 sentences.

Language

The Jaqaru language is characterized phonologically by possessing a series of aspirated co-articulated stop and affricate consonants, and by the presence of long vowels in some roots. Morphologically, it is an agglutinative language with extensive use of suffixes.

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: 3,223 of 6,254 clips (51.5%), 5 of 12 speakers (41.7%)

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: 4,826 of 6,254 clips (77.2%), 4 of 12 speakers (33.3%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 999 of 6,060 validated clips (16.5%)

The dataset contains 6060 validated, 115 invalidated, and 79 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.898 seconds.

Text corpus

On average, each sentence is composed by six words, sixty letters

Validated sentences: 999

The corpus contains 999 sentences: 999 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

Writing system

For the Jaqaru language, an official alphabet of 39 graphemes was established by Executive Order No. 303-2015-MINEDU issued by Peruvian Ministry of Education on June 12, 2015.

Sample

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

1. """Achkanhan tujrp"""" jayptawi"""

2. Kayunh muq'rshuski, ashaq uskutu

3. Apsatx machaq watas yuyt'ktna

4. """Jaqiq añsan utap"""" nakshuyawi"""

5. """Markat"""" auturitatkun ishpanushuwa"""

Sources

Sentences were written by Mrs. Neli Belleza

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

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

• Luis Camacho

Citation guidelines

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

    @article{Camacho_2024, 
    title   ={Automating the Proposition of Neologisms for the Quechua Language},  
    volume  ={54}, DOI={10.1017/S0025100324000227}, 
    number  ={3}, 
    journal ={Journal of the International Phonetic Association}, 
    author  ={Camacho, Luis}, 
    year    ={2024}, 
    pages   ={922–938}} 

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 ↩3 ↩4