Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Irish

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CC0-1.0

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 357.21 MB


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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Irish.

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

Gaeilge — Irish (ga-IE)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Irish (ga-IE). The dataset contains 15250 clips representing 16.15 hours of recorded speech (14.08 hours validated) from 269 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
Undefined33.0%
Male Masculine34.0%
Female Feminine33.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined30.0%
Twenties35.0%
Thirties24.0%
Teens1.0%
Fourties5.0%
Fifties4.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 16.65% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train550
Test532
Dev532

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 5775 sentences, of which 4436 are validated, 1339 are invalidated and 34 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

An iris a neartú agus í chur ag freastal ar na ceantair Ghaeltachta ar fad.
Déardaoin Naofa a bhí ann.
Ní hamháin go raibh an an grúpa mar ábhar inspioráide ag Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta.
Nach iontach an rud é?
Phós sí an fear a raibh teach tábhairne oscailte i nDoire an Fhéich ag a sheanathair agus bhog siar go Conamara chun tús a chur le saol nua.

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined14992
Agriculture Food4
Automotive Transport5
Finance100.0%
Service Retail5
General289
Healthcare2
History Law Government8
Media Entertainment6
Nature Environment4
News Current Affairs4
Technology Robotics3

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

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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