Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Twi

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Licensing

CC0-1.0

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Considerations

Restrictions/Special Constraints

You agree that you will not re-host or re-share this dataset

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

Twi — Twi (`tw`)

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This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Twi (tw). The dataset contains 287 clips representing 0.3 hours of recorded speech (0.2 hours validated) from 13 speakers.

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	23.0%
Male Masculine	77.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Undefined	20.0%
Twenties	5.0%
Thirties	75.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 100.00% are included in the splits.

Split	Count
Train	208
Test	21

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 49178 sentences, of which 49159 are validated, 19 are invalidated and 3 are reported.

Sample

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

Ɔsane ma wɔn akwankyerɛ
Ɔkyerɛwfo Ursula K.
Wo ho yɛ?
sɛ obi wɔ awerɛhow mu na ɔrepɛ awerɛkyekye a
Dɛn na esii ɔsram a etwaam no mu?

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	287

Fields

Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:

client_id - hashed UUID of a given user
path - relative path of the audio file
text - supposed transcription of the audio
up_votes - number of people who said audio matches the text
down_votes - number of people who said audio does not match text
age - age of the speaker1
gender - gender of the speaker1
accent - accent of the speaker1
segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here

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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.

Footnotes

For a full list of age, gender, and accent options, see the demograpics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2 ↩3