Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Dargwa

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 3/22/2026

Format: MP3

Size: 381.43 MB


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Description

A collection of read speech recordings in Dargwa (Дарган).

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

Дарган — Dargwa (dar)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Dargwa [Дарган - dar]. The dataset contains 11984 clips representing 18.98 hours of recorded speech (14.54 hours validated) from 39 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 6,953 sentences.

Language

Accents

CodeAccentClipsSpeakers
-911 (7.6%)4 (10.3%)

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, masculine--
female_feminineFemale, feminine4,566 (38.1%)6 (15.4%)
transgenderTransgender--
non-binaryNon-binary--
do_not_wish_to_sayPrefer not to say--
-Unspecified7,418 (61.9%)36 (92.3%)

Gender declared: 4,566 of 11,984 clips (38.1%), 3 of 39 speakers (7.7%)

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.

CodeAgeClipsSpeakers
teensTeens158 (1.3%)2 (5.1%)
twentiesTwenties2,909 (24.3%)9 (23.1%)
thirtiesThirties70 (0.6%)1 (2.6%)
fourtiesFourties1,986 (16.6%)1 (2.6%)
fiftiesFifties4,300 (35.9%)1 (2.6%)
sixtiesSixties--
seventiesSeventies--
eightiesEighties--
ninetiesNineties--
-Unspecified2,561 (21.4%)32 (82.1%)

Age declared: 9,423 of 11,984 clips (78.6%), 7 of 39 speakers (17.9%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

BucketClips
Validated9,181 (76.6%)
Invalidated178 (1.5%)
Other2,625 (21.9%)

Training splits

SplitClips
Train1,999 (21.8%)
Dev1,442 (15.7%)
Test1,387 (15.1%)

Training split coverage: 4,828 of 9,181 validated clips (52.6%)

The dataset contains 9181 validated, 178 invalidated, and 2625 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.703 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 5,960

CategoryCount
Unvalidated sentences993
Pending sentences861
Rejected sentences132
Reported sentences52

The corpus contains 6,953 sentences: 5,960 validated and 993 unvalidated (861 pending review, 132 rejected), with 52 reported for review.

Sample

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

  1. Илдала черкадра илцад-декӀар дахъал хӀялумцӀлаби дурадеркӀибти ахӀен.

  2. Урши, кьапӀа кабуха!

  3. Нуша ихтилатдикӏули лерли кабинетлизи уруз-урузли ухӏнахъиб гьести гӏямрула адам — Гӏумаров Къурбан.

  4. МицӀирли левай хӀед баркаллавикӀус.

  5. Чевверхи набчивад, набчиб сабри гӀяйиб.

Sources

SourceSentences
Газета Замана2,084 (35.0%)
ТУРЦИЯЛА ЗАКЛИУБ. Ибрагьим ИБРАГЬИМОВ721 (12.1%)
Common phrases from daily spoken Dargwa484 (8.1%)
Гьалад делкӏунти сагати хабурти352 (5.9%)
Даргинская народная мудрость289 (4.8%)
ТУРЦИЯЛА ЗАКЛИУБ. Ибрагьим Ибрагьимов275 (4.6%)
Хабар «ГуглахӀяй»214 (3.6%)
Бухъна махьила лягӏнат. Ибрагьим Ибрагьимов177 (3.0%)
«ВиштӀаси талхъан». Антуан Сент-Экзюпери168 (2.8%)
Other1,196 (20.1%)

Text domains

CodeDomainClipsSpeakers
generalGeneral9,271 (77.4%)39 (100.0%)
agriculture_foodAgriculture and Food466 (3.9%)16 (41.0%)
automotive_transportAutomotive and Transport--
financeFinance--
service_retailService and Retail--
healthcareHealthcare126 (1.1%)10 (25.6%)
history_law_governmentHistory, Law and Government1,597 (13.3%)22 (56.4%)
media_entertainmentMedia and Entertainment4,064 (33.9%)29 (74.4%)
nature_environmentNature and Environment--
news_current_affairsNews and Current Affairs3,245 (27.1%)26 (66.7%)
technology_roboticsTechnology and Robotics--
language_fundamentalsLanguage Fundamentals211 (1.8%)10 (25.6%)

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

  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