Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 2.0 - Lendu

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CC0-1.0

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 268.85 MB


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Description

A collection of spontaneous spoken phrases in Lendu.

Considerations

Forbidden Usage

It is forbidden to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the common Voice datasets. It is forbidden to re-host or re-share this 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

Lendu — Lendu (led)

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This datasheet is for version 2.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Lendu (led). The dataset contains 2857 clips representing 16 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 26 speakers.

Data splits for modelling

SplitCount
Train1292
Test356
Dev354

Transcriptions

  • Prompts: 120

  • Duration: 15:33:06 [h:m:s]

  • Avg. Transcription Len: 160

  • Avg. Duration: 19.6[s]

  • Valid Duration: 37728.72[s]

  • Total hours: 15.55[h]

  • Valid hours: 10.48[h]

Samples

Questions

There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.

Ŋá tuw jì nà nyìdhí bba ó bbalè chùw ní bba ó lò ndèymí cha ndèy nì ndèy njěy bba ó nì lò nà?
Ddudha biki-biki ndèymí gari nà ní chòw nì bbiydha mí ddiy njanja nì màdhí bba ó?
Ddrǒngóní nzadha ní ddu cha ndèy nì djow djá nzà nyìdhí bba ó nì?
Màdhò nzòw gwǐy ŋǎchú màdhí pbúw ó lò nà?
Zòw ní ŋá tǔwtǔw ní nga nà cha ndèy dhò li-gwíydha rr nyìdhí bba ó nì?
Responses

There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.

Bba ó bbalè chuw nì lò má ndèy shi nì ka pey nì sǐmù njàddí sâ nà ka cho ka chó nì bbalè í rónga nà njàddí sâ nà ka rr nì radio ó njàddí sâ nà ka rà njàddí li cho à swa bbalè dho bba kǎ nja sâ ka rà  ngu  tdiytdiy ní lò njèy cha ndèy dho lò mbà ndanà bbalè dè fúnìchú ma chuw nì lo
À nì chow nì bbiydha mà dho ddiydhò à nì ma djùtey mbǎ zěy à nì màtsá ddiy ddí tduw drǒngó ma rà shì zěy cha ma tdè rǎ mí nga ò
Nyû mí dzz̀ chey nì ji nì ngǎ ddiy dyesí mí klǒw nì rŕ ddiy bbiydha ddì nì nga ó ddù ràdha ngéyní nga ò
Nzòw ka dho mba ddìnga ó ney ka vi mbà nzòw ley gudjò à ley ka gwiy ndanà fúndrǔ bbúw mí lò ró ngwo mànà  ngèy ddà tdràdha manà à leě njàddí sâ nà ddí djuw mà ney ka vi mba ndrǔló nà ndaní cha  ka mbǎ  ndanà bbúw ó lò nzòw dho
Lò nì ngú nyi dhò tǔw nyì dhí nzòw ddí rà rà somu ò nzǐ litsìdha bbalè nà nì rà tdè ngǎ déydha ddì nì ddí ra tdè ngǎ tdíytdíy ní lò má ndèy nì ndèy njěy nì tsì dha ddí rà tdè klǒw fú nì zòw rà ley ní ddiy

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

  • audio_id - numeric id for audio file

  • audio_file - audio file name

  • duration_ms - duration of audio in milliseconds

  • prompt_id - numeric id for prompt

  • prompt - question for user

  • transcription - transcription of the audio response

  • votes - number of people that who approved a given transcript

  • age - age of the speaker1

  • gender - gender of the speaker1

  • language - language name

  • split - for data modelling, which subset of the data does this clip pertain to

  • char_per_sec - how many characters of transcription per second of audio

  • quality_tags - some automated assessment of the transcription--audio pair, separated by |

    • transcription-length - character per second under 3 characters per second

    • speech-rate - characters per second over 30 characters per second

    • short-audio - audio length under 2 seconds

    • long-audio - audio length over 30 seconds

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Acknowledgements

Funding

This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.

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

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