Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Matsés
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CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 173.73 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Matsés.
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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
[Matses] — Matses (mcf)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Matses (mcf). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 20 speakers.
Language
The Matsés language, ISO code mcf belongs to the Pano family and is spoken in the basins of the Gálvez and Yaquirana rivers, and in the Añushiyacu creek, in the Loreto department of Peru. It has also traditionally been known as "mayuruna", although today the speakers themselves prefer to call it Matsés.
Demographic information
The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.
Gender
Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 74.0% |
| Female Feminine | 26.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 5.0% |
| Twenties | 28.0% |
| Thirties | 34.0% |
| Teens | 26.0% |
| Fourties | 7.0% |
Text corpus
On average, sentences are composed by five words and contain a total of forty letters.
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus:
Ada chuec cadec
Chienda adosh quequin
Ëuëmbo iccoshe cadueccho
shocosh ampamban codocanu
peshun ampambanta sandoquin
Automatic random samples
Buintadquio tequin
Tantiadenquio iquec
cudasquio nec
¿atoda pe?
tsësio maucud nec
Sources
Sentences were written by Mr. Uaqui Dunu
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Acknowledgements
We extend our gratitude to Mr. Oscar Chávez Gonzales of the Peruvian Ministry of Education for providing invaluable information.
Datasheet authors
Luis Camacho camacho.l@pucp.pe
Citation guidelines
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:
@article{Camacho_2024,
title ={Automating the Proposition of Neologisms for the Quechua Language},
volume ={54}, DOI={10.1017/S0025100324000227},
number ={3},
journal ={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},
author ={Camacho, Luis},
year ={2024},
pages ={922–938}}
Funding
This dataset was funded by the Mozilla Foundation Open Multilingual Speech Fund.
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.