Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Irish

License:

CC0-1.0

Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 3/22/2026

Format: MP3

Size: 361.99 MB

Description

A collection of read speech recordings in Irish (Gaeilge).

Specifics

Licensing

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html

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

Gaeilge — Irish (`ga-IE`)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Irish [Gaeilge - ga-IE]. The dataset contains 15355 clips representing 16.33 hours of recorded speech (14.23 hours validated) from 278 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 6,354 sentences.

Language

Variants

Code	Variant	Clips	Speakers
ga-IE-chonnact	Gaeilge Chonnacht	3,978 (25.9%)	50 (18.0%)
ga-IE-mumhan	Gaeilge na Mumhan	3,157 (20.6%)	44 (15.8%)
ga-IE-uladh	Gaeilge Uladh	1,567 (10.2%)	23 (8.3%)
ga-IE-caighd	Gaeilge Chaighdeánach	53 (0.3%)	4 (1.4%)

Accents

Code	Accent	Clips	Speakers
cainteoir_líofa_ní_ó_dhúc…	Cainteoir líofa, ní ó dhúchas	1,307 (8.5%)	29 (10.4%)
cainteoir_dúchais_gaeltac…	Cainteoir dúchais, Gaeltacht	901 (5.9%)	15 (5.4%)
foghlaimeoir_fásta_ó_bhéa…	Foghlaimeoir fásta, ó Bhéarla	10 (0.1%)	2 (0.7%)
cainteoir_dúchais_lasmuig…	Cainteoir dúchais, lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht	10 (0.1%)	2 (0.7%)
foghlaimeoir_i_ngaelscoil	Foghlaimeoir, i nGaelscoil	10 (0.1%)	1 (0.4%)
-	Other	1,074 (7.0%)	6 (2.2%)

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.

Code	Gender	Clips	Speakers
male_masculine	Male, masculine	5,173 (33.7%)	47 (16.9%)
female_feminine	Female, feminine	5,089 (33.1%)	37 (13.3%)
transgender	Transgender	-	-
non-binary	Non-binary	-	-
do_not_wish_to_say	Prefer not to say	37 (0.2%)	1 (0.4%)
-	Unspecified	5,056 (32.9%)	208 (74.8%)

Gender declared: 10,299 of 15,355 clips (67.1%), 70 of 278 speakers (25.2%)

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.

Code	Age	Clips	Speakers
teens	Teens	183 (1.2%)	6 (2.2%)
twenties	Twenties	5,336 (34.8%)	41 (14.7%)
thirties	Thirties	3,601 (23.5%)	23 (8.3%)
fourties	Fourties	844 (5.5%)	16 (5.8%)
fifties	Fifties	681 (4.4%)	10 (3.6%)
sixties	Sixties	55 (0.4%)	2 (0.7%)
seventies	Seventies	-	-
eighties	Eighties	-	-
nineties	Nineties	-	-
-	Unspecified	4,655 (30.3%)	200 (71.9%)

Age declared: 10,700 of 15,355 clips (69.7%), 78 of 278 speakers (28.1%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Bucket	Clips
Validated	13,379 (87.1%)
Invalidated	1,302 (8.5%)
Other	674 (4.4%)

Training splits

Split	Clips
Train	925 (6.9%)
Dev	873 (6.5%)
Test	874 (6.5%)

Training split coverage: 2,672 of 13,379 validated clips (20.0%)

The dataset contains 13379 validated, 1302 invalidated, and 674 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 3.831 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 4,883

Category	Count
Unvalidated sentences	1,471
Pending sentences	1,467
Rejected sentences	4
Reported sentences	42

The corpus contains 6,354 sentences: 4,883 validated and 1,471 unvalidated (1,467 pending review, 4 rejected), with 42 reported for review.

Sample

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

An naíonán a labhair trína chodladh
Mar gur thuig siad go maith an stailc agus seasamh an cheardchumainn.
Sin maoin thar na bearta.
Guím gach rath agus beannacht don todhchaí ar gach scoláire atá anseo inniu.
Bhí sé ag dul in aois agus ní raibh a shláinte rómhaith.

Sources

Source	Sentences
Mac Con Iomaire, R. (2024) An Ghluaiseacht: Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta. Cló Iar-Chonnacht.	2,706 (57.2%)
uachtaran	403 (8.5%)
ancomhgar	397 (8.4%)
minimal_pairs	151 (3.2%)
achtanna	126 (2.7%)
An Bealach Chun na Gaedhaltacha le Seán Mac Maoláin	108 (2.3%)
seananocoistin	88 (1.9%)
Self-citation	87 (1.8%)
graimear_na_gaedhilge	85 (1.8%)
Other	579 (12.2%)

Text domains

Code	Domain	Clips	Speakers
general	General	298 (1.9%)	51 (18.3%)
agriculture_food	Agriculture and Food	5 (0.0%)	4 (1.4%)
automotive_transport	Automotive and Transport	6 (0.0%)	6 (2.2%)
finance	Finance	1 (0.0%)	1 (0.4%)
service_retail	Service and Retail	7 (0.0%)	6 (2.2%)
healthcare	Healthcare	2 (0.0%)	2 (0.7%)
history_law_government	History, Law and Government	10 (0.1%)	9 (3.2%)
media_entertainment	Media and Entertainment	8 (0.1%)	7 (2.5%)
nature_environment	Nature and Environment	4 (0.0%)	4 (1.4%)
news_current_affairs	News and Current Affairs	6 (0.0%)	6 (2.2%)
technology_robotics	Technology and Robotics	3 (0.0%)	3 (1.1%)
language_fundamentals	Language 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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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

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