Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Estonian

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CC0-1.0

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Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 1.49 GB


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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Estonian.

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

eesti — Estonian (et)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Estonian (et). The dataset contains 35744 clips representing 66.73 hours of recorded speech (51.63 hours validated) from 1067 speakers.

Language

Variants

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.

GenderPercentage
Undefined24.0%
Male Masculine49.0%
Female Feminine26.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined18.0%
Twenties70.0%
Thirties8.0%
Fourties3.0%
Fifties1.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 34.10% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train3446
Test2853
Dev2853

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 12269 sentences, of which 10981 are validated, 1288 are invalidated and 568 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

Tahaksin saada suurena politseinikuks, samuti tahaksin saada poemüüjaks.

Uuel aastal hakkab poeg kindlasti suuremaid maju ehitama.
Huvilised võisid endale soetada nikerdustega ahjuroobi või hoopis hobuseraua.
Täpsem info võistluse kohta on leitav Vikipeediast.
Maailma suurimad mobiilitootjad eesotsas Nokiaga suhtusid uude tulijasse üleolekuga.

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined34751
Agriculture Food61
Automotive Transport46
Finance42
Service Retail14
General620
Healthcare36
History Law Government40
Language Fundamentals17
Media Entertainment46
Nature Environment111
News Current Affairs23
Technology Robotics46

Processing

Recommended post-processing

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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Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

Citation guidelines

Funding

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