Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Nyungwe

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

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Size: 209.16 MB


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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Nyungwe.

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

[Nyungwe] — Nyungwe (nyu)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Nyungwe (nyu). The dataset contains 3716 clips representing 10.66 hours of recorded speech (10.44 hours validated) from 5 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
Undefined67.0%
Female Feminine33.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined32.0%
Twenties33.0%
Thirties34.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 34.93% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train1023
Test248

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 1270 sentences, of which 1271 are validated, -1 are invalidated and 0 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

Papfundziro la Ofisiyo iwo adapfundzira kusona mphasa.
Usiku bwa dzulo, mwana wa Zuze alibe kugona na thangwera ankhalira na kubva kuwawa.
Iwo akhapsayira mʼmathanga yale katatu pa ntsiku kuti bzifuwo bzace bzikhale bzidacena.
Ine nimbalota kudzakhala mʼpfundzisi kuti ndidzapfundzise ndipo ndicidzapfundzisiwambo na wanawo.
Ninga ciyezezo, bzinʼfunika kuti tentse tibvine mwa bwinobwino.

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined2624
Agriculture Food4
General1082
Healthcare2
History Law Government2
Nature Environment4

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

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.

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