Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Jaqaru

Specifics

Licensing

CC0 1.0 Universal

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

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

[Jaqaru] — Jaqaru (`jqr`)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Jaqaru (jqr). The dataset contains 6255 clips representing 10.27 hours of recorded speech (9.95 hours validated) from 12 speakers.

Language

The Jaqaru language is characterized phonologically by possessing a series of aspirated co-articulated stop and affricate consonants, and by the presence of long vowels in some roots. Morphologically, it is an agglutinative language with extensive use of suffixes.

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	48.0%
Female Feminine	52.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Undefined	23.0%
Fourties	60.0%
Fifties	16.0%
Sixties	1.0%

Text corpus

On average, each sentence is composed by six words, sixty letters

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	6255

Writing system

For the Jaqaru language, an official alphabet of 39 graphemes was established by Executive Order No. 303-2015-MINEDU issued by Peruvian Ministry of Education on June 12, 2015.

Sample

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

Kacxan qaqcxawkiwa, ajtz' jakshinwa tz'uknushu
Jaqkunaq illt'kushtu nurtast"wa                                                                  
Akura, Juli may markasanawa, illkirillkirir jayra, kantu,putaka,ilrunushsa akaw kultursa.
Qamish qillqas mushkutna, ishaw jicx'k"anushutxi, qajcxnushutxi, shumayw qillqas uyunushu
Punan yatxutaq antz jayankiwa: qayllkunaq apsap" apsap" wasanw shaykutsan yatxutar purki.

Automatic random samples

Apkaq may janq' pañul wayta wayt wurtawi
"Punan yatxutaq antz jayankiwa: qayllkunaq apsap"" apsap"" wasanw shaykutsan yatxutar purki."
Isiduraq lluq'in niwnir nawptawi
"Tatanhq yatxutat"" nurnushunht"" yanhishkutu. "
Jinch us ustatktna ish qamshishisna

Sources

Sentences were written by Mrs. Neli Belleza

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Acknowledgements

We extend our gratitude to Mr. Oscar Chávez Gonzales of the Peruvian Ministry of Education for providing invaluable information.

Datasheet authors

Luis Camacho camacho.l@pucp.pe

Citation guidelines

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:

    @article{Camacho_2024, 
    title   ={Automating the Proposition of Neologisms for the Quechua Language},  
    volume  ={54}, DOI={10.1017/S0025100324000227}, 
    number  ={3}, 
    journal ={Journal of the International Phonetic Association}, 
    author  ={Camacho, Luis}, 
    year    ={2024}, 
    pages   ={922–938}}

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.