Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Guidar
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 206.30 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Guidar.
Specifics
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
[Guidar] — Guidar (gid)
This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Guidar (gid). The dataset contains 5319 clips representing 10.5 hours of recorded
speech (10.09 hours validated) from 16 speakers.
Language
Ethnologue online presents Gidar as a stable indigenous language of Cameroon and Chad. It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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.
| Gender | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 100.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 99.0% |
| Thirties | 1.0% |
Text corpus
Writing system
The collection of sentence prompts is written in a Latin-based script with a few phonetic characters and no tone.
Symbol table
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
Nolanha pay nis guekuga nar ban mogroko nis darkiyu va kesoko
Kuma tisine gəda waya ho na wuzlera metikine diy kisok
Medam əza bià derbaka wuza kurump amanz medam a bar na mifiya
Packam naw asgassuwək pay pak aka wəne nasmaïska, pay pak nawbo nəɓoŋko
Offo akà gula nakum miki iŋklé atani
Automatic random samples
Ezume vaskà kisikile ninek nani asan tizan kinetké pay kisine kune.
Asé kusu heremé adaku kizlaki nikiga daka na paya.
Soŋgoro pay net may kuma na dini wuk dida na adanta.
Minokum pay midé anakuda vi nevoyi dakulum misbukine kurum mantaki.
Dəf katergən awsla biyin sa? Ka diy pay na bare kidanti.
Sources
Text domains
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 5319 |
Processing
Recommended post-processing
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Community links
Discussions
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https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/gid/
Acknowledgements
The compilation of this dataset occured during data camp organized in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in May 2025. Two main contributors were involved in the localization of the MCV interface for Tuki, gathering of the sentence prompts, reading sentence prompts, and validating recordings. They are :
Solange Ankavay
Sali Wadou
The organization of the data camp was conducted by a dynamic whose dedication is herewith acknowledged :
Dr. Florus Landry Dibenge (Project Lead)
Eliette Emilie-Caroline Ngo Tjomb Assembe
Eric Koung
Blaise Mathieu Banum Manguele
Martial Brice Antangana Eloundou
Emmanuel Giovanni Eloundou Eyenga
Datasheet authors
Emmanuel Ngue Um ngueum@gmail.com, Solange Ankavay solangeankavay@gmail.com, Sali Wadou salywadu@yahoo.com
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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.