Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Norwegian Bokmål

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CC0-1.0

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 52.05 MB


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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Norwegian Bokmål.

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

Norsk (bokmål) — Norwegian Bokmål (nb-NO)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Norwegian Bokmål (nb-NO). The dataset contains 2237 clips representing 2.6 hours of recorded speech (2.33 hours validated) from 67 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
Undefined40.0%
Male Masculine60.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined18.0%
Thirties62.0%
Fourties19.0%
Fifties2.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 100.00% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train1259
Test399

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 8067 sentences, of which 4375 are validated, 3692 are invalidated and 1 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

Å hoppe tau er overraskende slitsomt
Urbefolkningens kunnskap om naturen er verdifull.
Hyggelig å møte deg også
Hun fikk ikke medhold da saken var oppe i trygderetten.
les denne

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined1426
Agriculture Food3
Finance4
Service Retail37
General717
History Law Government21
Language Fundamentals13
Media Entertainment17
Nature Environment37
News Current Affairs32

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