Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Quechua Santiago del Estero

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

[Quechua Santiago del Estero] — Quechua Santiago del Estero (`qus`)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Quechua Santiago del Estero (qus). The dataset contains 10849 clips representing 11.57 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 24 speakers.

Language

Quechua Santiago del Estero, identified by the ISO 639-3: qus, belongs to the Quechua II group.

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	54.0%
Female Feminine	46.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Undefined	20.0%
Twenties	36.0%
Thirties	32.0%
Fourties	3.0%
Fifties	9.0%

Text corpus

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	10849

Writing system

Quechua language is written in the Latin script. All Quechua dialects form words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. Unlike most Quechua dialects, which employ a standard three-vowel system, this dialect is typically written using five vowels.

Sample

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

waay wata chunka pishkayoq
qallarerani llamkayta chunka shoqtayoq kaptiy
chunka kanchisnyoq kasarakorani
chunka pusayoq  waata aperani
qosay chunka esqonniyoq tiyapun

Automatic random samples

tatay sikilu kan
añangu aqnalu kan
mikunapi sapallan tiyani
mikuna wqllikun
qosay maeqador kan

Sources

Sentences were written by Mrs. Margarita Taboada

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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.