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License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 21.23 GB
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A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Swahili.
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You agree that you will not re-host or re-share this dataset
Forbidden Usage
You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset
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.
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This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Swahili (sw). The dataset contains 725175 clips representing 1119 hours of recorded
speech (411 hours validated) from 1484 speakers.
The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.
Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 29.0% |
| Male Masculine | 34.0% |
| Female Feminine | 37.0% |
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 31.0% |
| Twenties | 50.0% |
| Thirties | 11.0% |
| Teens | 1.0% |
| Fourties | 3.0% |
| Fifties | 4.0% |
| Sixties | 1.0% |
The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 26.57% are included in the splits.
| Split | Count |
|---|---|
| Train | 46618 |
| Test | 12262 |
| Dev | 12258 |
The text corpus contains 140483 sentences, of which 134725 are validated, 5758 are invalidated and 1902 are reported.
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
kumtukuza na kumsifu Mwenyezi Mungu kwa sifa zake njema ambazo
kumshinikiza naibu rais William Ruto kuhakikisha huduma
Kazi hii inaangazia zaidi mofosintaksia na kwamba haitajishughulisha sana na maana
apewe mawaidha ya kuishi katika ndoa alipotangamana na wenzake
Waliwasili Dubai siku iliyofuata saa sita adhuhuri
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 725175 |
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
accent - accent of the speaker1
segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here
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.
For a full list of age, gender, and accent options, see the demograpics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2 ↩3