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Common VoiceDataset ID:
cmflnn4ec7urxivcibftyfjhj
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 261.50 MB
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A collection of spontaneous spoken phrases in Bukusu.
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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 Spontaneous Speech dataset
for Bukusu (bxk). The dataset contains 2934 clips representing 15 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 27 speakers.
The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.
Self-declared gender information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.
Self-declared age information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Split | Count |
|---|---|
| Train | 2221 |
| Dev | 355 |
Prompts: 120
Duration: 49997016[ms]
Avg. Transcription Len: 111
Avg. Duration: 17.04[s]
Valid Duration: 36135.11[s]
Total hours: 13.89[h]
Valid hours: 10.04[h]
There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.
Lwasii bakhana batsitsanga khwisomelo nga basinde?
Bilyo siina byesi mayi ununisa kenyikhana khulya nabe nende kamabele kamakali?
NGO tsirunga siina khurera kimilimo mu area yowo?
Kazii sii esii khusaba khulera mukhunyola lukosii nende khulakilila musiiku tsebutinyu?
Khusomya babana kiminyongo khurye?
There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.
Imuwa kamakesi nandi omwana omusoleli yuno, rarawe abolele omwana ache esikuli namwe akhole ekasii mbali mbali.
Chingo chibili muyuganda chili chichilera bubalayi nebuli butinyu nabi khulolelela chingo chibili lwekhuba bakana khulya, babana bakana khusoma, buli butinyu nabi khusomesha babana bechingo chibili ate khu! khubaa-yeta beyongele.
Khubawakho syekhulya kabari wafunilekho syekhulya owasyo sali nasyo taa, omuwakho akhaba abe buyeti bwebusilikhi ngo omundu walwalile amala sali nga neyenyala taa ewe olikho nende lipesa wamuyetakho wacha mukhiosipito, wabayetakho munyafasi chikhali ndwela taa mundu nafwilile omuyeta khubona ori mumutimilila khumasika.
Nganechinile papa esokha wacha khukha draka syopu wanyolakho kamasuswa fulani nebikhaya ewe wayima omusawo mala sisilakho aba ocha mwikangilo ee!
Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:
client_id - hashed UUID of a given user
audio_id - numeric id for audio file
audio_file - audio file name
duration_ms - duration of audio in milliseconds
prompt_id - numeric id for prompt
prompt - question for user
transcription - transcription of the audio response
votes - number of people that who approved a given transcript
age - age of the speaker1
gender - gender of the speaker1
language - language name
split - for data modelling, which subset of the data does this clip pertain to
char_per_sec - how many characters of transcription per second of audio
quality_tags - some automated assessment of the transcription--audio pair, separated by |
transcription-length - character per second under 3 characters per second
speech-rate - characters per second over 30 characters per second
short-audio - audio length under 2 seconds
long-audio - audio length over 30 seconds
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