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License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 258.53 MB
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A collection of spontaneous spoken phrases in Bukusu.
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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
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 2.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset
for Bukusu (bxk). The dataset contains 2934 clips representing 14 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 27 speakers.
| Split | Count |
|---|---|
| Train | 1350 |
| Test | 355 |
| Dev | 354 |
Prompts: 120
Duration: 13:53:17 [h:m:s]
Avg. Transcription Len: 159
Avg. Duration: 17.04[s]
Valid Duration: 36135.108[s]
Total hours: 13.89[h]
Valid hours: 10.04[h]
There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.
Bulayi siina esi tsisacco nende kamatuli kebalimi bakholanga mukhu rera kimilimo khushalo?
Buwangafu sii bwesi bandu babiramo tsisiku tsefula?
Bandu bebashsnga barye nga omwana omukhana afwarire elongi khushalo?
Babami bakhola sii khubona nga khushalo khumiliya?
Mukholanga murye nga efula siyapile taa khumala embuka endeyi?
There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.
Barera ekasii ambi sana nebabandu lundi barera aa! bandu khuwambanila alala bakhola sindu silala lundi bandu babanebindu! bifuna byaba bikali sana khubindu byesi bakhola.
butinyu bwesi bandu banyolanga mufula ebechanga husambula chinjju nendee kimitaro hulya kimikunda
Babana abe bandu bebasya bubi nabi omwana omukhana nga kafwarire elongi khusyalo, chisambo sechiba chindayi taa ate bolana khumulanga bari fwana ali malaya.
Babami bakanibwa bapilila bekhusyalo, nesyaba silayi mungeli indi barawo kamalaka kakafuka babandu bekhusyalo esyo nebaba nga banyalisya khulinda sisyalo syabwe syaba similiyu.
Efula nga seyapilenga khumala embuka endeyi taa, khulimanga kimikunda nga khwirekekhela khubyala kamayindi, kamakanda yani bilimwa bye khulya.
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 was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.
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 demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2