Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Mingrelian

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Task: ASR

Release Date: 3/22/2026

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Description

A collection of read speech recordings in Mingrelian (მარგალური).

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

მარგალური — Mingrelian (xmf)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Mingrelian [მარგალური - xmf]. The dataset contains 7388 clips representing 12.63 hours of recorded speech (11.57 hours validated) from 89 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 1,040 sentences.

Language

Variants

CodeVariantClipsSpeakers
xmf-senmarსენაკურ-მარტვილური467 (6.3%)7 (7.9%)
xmf-zugdidზუგიდური413 (5.6%)8 (9.0%)
xmf-samurzსამურზაყანოული339 (4.6%)4 (4.5%)

Accents

CodeAccentClipsSpeakers
zugidზუგიდური, ზუგიდური964 (13.0%)9 (10.1%)
chkhorსენაკურ-მარტვილური, ჩხოროწყული372 (5.0%)3 (3.4%)
bandzaსენაკურ-მარტვილური, ბანძა-მარტვილური55 (0.7%)4 (4.5%)
senakსენაკურ-მარტვილური, სენაკური15 (0.2%)2 (2.2%)
jvarზუგიდური, ჯვარული5 (0.1%)1 (1.1%)
-Other5 (0.1%)1 (1.1%)

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, masculine401 (5.4%)4 (4.5%)
female_feminineFemale, feminine3,620 (49.0%)12 (13.5%)
transgenderTransgender--
non-binaryNon-binary--
do_not_wish_to_sayPrefer not to say--
-Unspecified3,367 (45.6%)78 (87.6%)

Gender declared: 4,021 of 7,388 clips (54.4%), 11 of 89 speakers (12.4%)

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
teensTeens149 (2.0%)1 (1.1%)
twentiesTwenties2,322 (31.4%)9 (10.1%)
thirtiesThirties2,235 (30.3%)7 (7.9%)
fourtiesFourties983 (13.3%)4 (4.5%)
fiftiesFifties5 (0.1%)1 (1.1%)
sixtiesSixties--
seventiesSeventies--
eightiesEighties--
ninetiesNineties--
-Unspecified1,694 (22.9%)75 (84.3%)

Age declared: 5,694 of 7,388 clips (77.1%), 14 of 89 speakers (15.7%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

BucketClips
Validated6,766 (91.6%)
Invalidated590 (8.0%)
Other32 (0.4%)

Training splits

SplitClips
Train336 (5.0%)
Dev327 (4.8%)
Test326 (4.8%)

Training split coverage: 989 of 6,766 validated clips (14.6%)

The dataset contains 6766 validated, 590 invalidated, and 32 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 6.156 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 1,004

CategoryCount
Unvalidated sentences36
Pending sentences13
Rejected sentences23
Reported sentences20

The corpus contains 1,040 sentences: 1,004 validated and 36 unvalidated (13 pending review, 23 rejected), with 20 reported for review.

Sample

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

  1. მუშო ოკო რაგადი, ჭკვერას ქიჸუაფუქდა, თოკის ხოლო ქიმერჩანქ კირიბიშ გიოკირალო დო ბარჯგისით.

  2. თინა დიდი კვეზერია დო კანდიორი მიდგარენ ქორდჷ.

  3. ჭიჭე მაფასქირს შური ვაუქალჷ.

  4. საუბედუროთ, წავაგი ჩხუბი, ჯარი გომიჭყვიდეს დო თეშ გინმართ საქმექ, ცხენს მათრახი გივაშქვი დო იპრტი.

  5. ნორტყიშ ღობერშა ვეგიჯინნედჷ, თეშ რდჷ აკოჩარგაზელი.

Sources

SourceSentences
ჯორჯ ორუელი „ორინჯეფიშ ფერმა“, მეგრულად თარგმნა გივი გ. ქარჩავამ, თბილისი, 2021.384 (38.2%)
მაკარ ხუბუა, მეგრული ტექსტები, ტფილისი, 1937220 (21.9%)
ანტუან დე სენტ-ეგზიუპერი, “ჭიჭე მაფასქირი“. მეგრულად თარგმნა გივი გ. ქარჩავამ112 (11.2%)
Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка cъ хрестоматиею и словаремъ. 1914.101 (10.1%)
მა58 (5.8%)
შ. ბერიძე, მეგრული (ივერული) ენა, ტბილისი, 192042 (4.2%)
ანტუან დე სენტ-ეგზიუპერი, “ჭიჭე მაფასქირი“. მეგრულად თარგმნა გივი გ. ქარჩავამ.36 (3.6%)
.14 (1.4%)
Other37 (3.7%)

Text domains

CodeDomainClipsSpeakers
generalGeneral19 (0.3%)11 (12.4%)
agriculture_foodAgriculture and Food9 (0.1%)9 (10.1%)
automotive_transportAutomotive and Transport19 (0.3%)13 (14.6%)
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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Acknowledgements

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