Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Catalan

català — Catalan (ca)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Catalan (ca). The dataset contains 2676776 clips representing 3866.82 hours of recorded speech (3318.62 hours validated) from 36868 speakers.

Language

Catalan is a Romance language spoken by about 9 milion people mainly on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

It is an official language, along with Spanish or Castilian, in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community (where it is also called Valencian), while it is the only official language of the Principality of Andorra. It is also spoken, and has some administrative recognition, without reaching official status, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Aragon, in the French department Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees) and in the city of Alghero, on the island of Sardinia (Italy).

The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages.

Variants

The main variants of Catalan are:

• Central [ca-central]: It is the variant with the most speakers, as it encompasses the metropolitan area of Barcelona, extending to the region of Girona and the eastern half of Tarragona

• Balearic [ca-balear]: The variant used in the Balearic Islands

• Nord-Occidental [ca-nwestern]: Spoken in Andorra, Lleida and the western half of Tarragona in Catalonia, and the eastern part of Aragon

• Septentrional [ca-northern]: Corresponds to the area of Roussillon and the northern part of Girona

• Valencian: Spoken in the Valencian comunity, where it's also known as "Valencian"

  • Valencià meridional [ca-valencia-southern]

  • Alacantí [ca-valencia-alacant]

  • Valencià septentrional [ca-valencia-northern]

  • Tortosí [ca-valencia-tortosi]

  • Valencià central [ca-valencia-central]

• Alguerese [ca-algueres]: Spoken in the city of Alghero, in Sardinia

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.

Age

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

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 54.59% are included in the splits.

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 1307340 sentences, of which 1302505 are validated, 4835 are invalidated and 8864 are reported.

Writing system

Catalan is written using the Latin alphabet (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz), with the special characters ç and l·l. In addition, vowels can be accented (à, è, é, í, ò, ó, ú, ü, ï). The characters - (hyphen) and ' (apostrophe) are also part of Catalan orthography.

Symbol table

a b c ç d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z à è é í ò ó ú ï ü

Sample

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

Després d'algunes mudes es transformen en pupa.
Va ser Director General en diferents governs de Jordi Pujol.
Va ser un altre avatar de Devi Laxmi.
El de Sanchi tenia una execució menys refinada, i estava en pitjors condicions. 
Res ni ningú guanyar ni doblegarà les nostres ànsies de llibertat, va escriure.

Text domains

Recommended post-processing

It is recommended to normalize instances of the geminate L, which can take the equivalent forms of l·l or ŀl.

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

Get involved!

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

• Speak

• Write

• Listen

• Review

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

• Carme Armentano carme.armentano@bsc.es

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 demograpics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2 ↩3