Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Loja Highland Quichua
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CC0-1.0
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Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 221.72 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Loja Highland Quichua.
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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
[Loja Highland Kichwa] — Loja Highland Kichwa (qvj)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Loja Highland Kichwa (qvj). The dataset contains 12 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 16 speakers.
Language
Loja Highland Kichwa, identified by the ISO 639-3: qvj, belongs to the Quechua II group.
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 | 20.0% |
| Female Feminine | 80.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Twenties | 58.0% |
| Thirties | 2.0% |
| Fourties | 39.0% |
Text corpus
The average length of sentences is 6 tokens (40 characters).
Writing system
Quechua language is written in the Latin script. All Quechua dialects form words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus:
Shunkullita mashama kararka
Tikramuy kikinpa muskuypi
Pawan ashtaka wayanaykuna tamia chayamuymanta
Hatarishka wayrawan pillpintushna
Hatarishka pillpintulaya kawsay yaya pachamamapi
Automatic random samples
Kunan kashaka wayra punlla.
Puentes vitelas mishitinchi inti raymita takinkapa.
Hatarirka yaya pututa.
Maskaspami kani mashikunta kichwa shimi yachakunkapa munakkunata.
Mana sakinachu kanchi hatuktaytata nirka ayllukuna.
Sources
Sentences were collected by Mr. Luis Córdova
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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.