Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Manx

gv — Manx (gv)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Manx [gv - gv]. The dataset contains 6590 clips representing 10.58 hours of recorded speech (10.12 hours validated) from 9 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 4,240 sentences.

Language

Manx is the indgenous Celtic language of the Isle of Man, closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It has used a unique orthography from at least the seventeenth century. It is spoken by at least 2,000 speakers today (2025).

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: 3,559 of 6,590 clips (54.0%), 3 of 9 speakers (33.3%)

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.

Age declared: 6,590 of 6,590 clips (100.0%), 9 of 9 speakers (100.0%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 4,111 of 6,302 validated clips (65.2%)

The dataset contains 6302 validated, 151 invalidated, and 137 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.782 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 4,219

The corpus contains 4,240 sentences: 4,219 validated and 21 unvalidated (21 pending review, 0 rejected), with 265 reported for review.

Writing system

The Manx orthography used today is based on the Manx orthography of the Manx Bible of 1775, and the Cregeen Dictionary of 1838, although many of the diacritcs are omitted these days.

Symbol table

a â b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t ç h u v w y

Sample

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

1. Ta'n bod echey gaase mollagh, dooyrt ad.

2. Cur arran daue as ushtey.

3. As huit paart mastey drineyn: as daase ny drineyn seose as phloogh ad eh.

4. Mish y leeideilagh ayns raad yn ynrickys, ayns ny cassanyn jeeragh dy vriwnys.

5. Raaid lane dy oghteeyn.

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

• Learn Manx

• 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