Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Mina

gej — Mina (gej)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Mina [gej - gej]. The dataset contains 16773 clips representing 11.38 hours of recorded speech (11.14 hours validated) from 20 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 3,188 sentences.

Language

Mina (also called Gen, Gɛn gbe, Popo) is a Gbe language spoken primarily in southern Togo (Maritime Region) and in southern Benin (Mono Department). It is part of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. The language is used in daily communication, religious contexts, oral literature, and traditional expressions.

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: 0 of 16,773 clips (0.0%), 0 of 20 speakers (0.0%)

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.

Age declared: 0 of 16,773 clips (0.0%), 0 of 20 speakers (0.0%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 3,188 of 16,417 validated clips (19.4%)

The dataset contains 16417 validated, 333 invalidated, and 23 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 2.444 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 3,188

The corpus contains 3,188 sentences: 3,188 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

Writing system

Mina / Gen is a tonal language, using level tones:

• High tone: marked with an acute accent (´)

• Low tone: unmarked

Nasalization is indicated via n following the vowel (e.g. an, en) rather than via diacritics.

Symbol table

Uppercase:
A B C D Ɖ E Ɛ F G GB Ɣ H X I J K KP L M N NY Ŋ Ɔ P S T U Ʋ V W Y Z

Lowercase:
a b c d ɖ e ɛ f g gb ɣ h x i j k kp l m n ny ŋ ɔ p s t u ʋ v w y z

Sample

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

1. E sia nu.

2. Kotokuwoeadre.

3. Mi me te.

4. Anyigba.

5. Sosokpejesi.

Sources

The dataset has been compiled from:

• Religious books (translations, liturgy)

• Dictionaries of Mina / Gen

• Common expressions collected from everyday life and fieldwork

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 Mina / Gen (gej) page (link to be activated when available)

• 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

• Justin Bakoubolo

• AGBOBLI, PhD

• Justin Bakoubolo — supervised the compilation and coordination of the dataset.

• Justin Bakoubolo

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