Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - German

Deutsch — German (de)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for German [Deutsch - de]. The dataset contains 1015951 clips representing 1485.74 hours of recorded speech (1388.85 hours validated) from 20466 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 2,059,644 sentences.

Language

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: 671,360 of 1,015,951 clips (66.1%), 4,399 of 20,466 speakers (21.5%)

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: 680,491 of 1,015,951 clips (67.0%), 4,536 of 20,466 speakers (22.2%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 653,556 of 949,698 validated clips (68.8%)

The dataset contains 949698 validated, 58471 invalidated, and 7782 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.265 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 2,058,021

The corpus contains 2,059,644 sentences: 2,058,021 validated and 1,623 unvalidated (1,299 pending review, 324 rejected), with 11,409 reported for review.

Sample

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

1. Diese basiert auf einer von dem Hersteller oder den Herstellern des Produktes durchgeführten Konformitätsbewertung.

2. Mannschaft aktiv.

3. Ich denke, wir haben die Möglichkeit, etwas Positives zu tun.

4. Auch diesmal gelang ihm mit Koper allerdings der direkte Wiederaufstieg ins Oberhaus.

5. Im Alter von elf Jahren entwarf er seinen ersten Schuh.

Sources

Text domains

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 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