Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Asheninka Perene

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

[Asheninka Perene] — Asheninka Perene (`prq`)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Asheninka Perene (prq). The dataset contains 7669 clips representing 10.35 hours of recorded speech (10.02 hours validated) from 13 speakers.

Language

The Asheninka are a South America first nation and their language belong to the Arawak linguistic family, they are primarily located in the central Peruvian rainforest between the eastern Andes and the Ucayali River, a region known as the Gran Pajonal due to its extensive tropical grasslands. Their cultural identity is deeply tied to their language, ancestral practices, and a profound connection to their territory, which they view as essential to their livelihood and cultural distinctiveness. This relationship fosters a strong ethic of environmental respect and sustainability, central to their organized community structure and long-standing desire for formal recognition separate from other Indigenous groups.

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	16.0%
Female Feminine	84.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Twenties	17.0%
Thirties	26.0%
Fourties	57.0%

Text corpus

On average, sentences consist of six words and contain a total of forty letters.

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	7669

Writing system

The Asheninka alphabet was officially established by Executive Order No. 199-2019-MINEDU issued by Peruvian Ministry of Education. The alphabet is composed by 22 graphemes.

Sample

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

Amasawitake osheki jemo
Ana owacha shinki sawari
Anakotatsiri irojatsi iñatsata irojatsita yanyantakiaro kameetsa
Anakote te kaari maaroni, aninte anakote iroo kameetsatatsiri
Anijeitake shintsini aretantyari awankoki

Automatic random samples

Paye inchaimpiki.
Nirento antake parentsija yashi maratsi.
Woro iracha.
Piñanate ari ompankitakiro piipatsa.
Katsirini naiki.

Sources

Sentences were written by Mr. Pablo Jacinto.

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Community links

Common Voice translators on Pontoon

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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.