Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Arequipa-La Unión 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 Arequipa-La Unión] — Quechua Arequipa-La Unión (`qxu`)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Quechua Arequipa-La Unión (qxu). The dataset contains 14 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 16 speakers.

Language

Arequipa - La Unión Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qxu, 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	46.0%
Female Feminine	54.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Twenties	47.0%
Thirties	34.0%
Teens	9.0%
Fourties	9.0%

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.

Symbol table

Following the rules established by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Urin Qichwa Qillqay Yachana Mayt'u = Manual de escritura quechua sureño

Symbol
a
ch
chh
ch'
h
i
k
kh
k'
l
ll
m
n
ñ
p
ph
p'
q
qh
q'
r
s
th
t
t'
u
w
y

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.

 qariqmantam mana llamk'ana kanchu
 Qasasqa rit'iqa achka killapi chullun
 Tutantinchu mikhurqanku
¡Hakuchu, chuwispi pukllaykamusunchik!
¡Hampuy, taytáy, allqupas watasqam!

Automatic random samples

Willakuy, ama manchakuspa.
Rakisqa, phatmasqa, wakyachisqa.
Ña sindicato rantirqachikusqaña.
Sallqa kawsaqkuna hapʼiymi.
Qurpachaway, mamitáy.

Sources

Sentences were written by Prof. Cerafina Condori

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.