Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Yanahuanca Pasco Quechua

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Licensing

CC0-1.0

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Considerations

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Forbidden Usage

You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset

Processes

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

[Qichwa Yanawanka] — Quechua Yanahuanca (`qur`)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Quechua Yanahuanca (qur). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 12 speakers.

Language

Quechua Yanahuanca, identified by the ISO 639-3: qur, belongs to the Quechua I 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	19.0%
Female Feminine	81.0%

Age

Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Age Band	Percentage
Twenties	76.0%
Thirties	24.0%

Text corpus

On average, sentences consist of six words and contain a total of forty letters.

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:

tupuyllapa apichuta rantikuy.
tunayta rikakuqmi aywanchik.
tunaychawmi shinkakuykurqaa.
tumshuta mikurmi kawakuu.
tumish manam tushuyta yachantsu.

Automatic random samples

malli puka shukuyniyuqmi puriykan.
shiri papata akray tuqushpa.
wamra ñawinchayta yachakuykan.
makinchaw tiktim yuripashqa.
pay alli puntakuqmi.

Sources

Sentences were written by Mrs. Mabel Amado

Community links

Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

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.