Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Kichwa

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

[Kichwa] — Kichwa (`qvi`)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Kichwa (qvi). The dataset contains 10196 clips representing 12.53 hours of recorded speech (11.39 hours validated) from 15 speakers.

Language

Imbabura Highland Kichwa or just Kichwa, identified by the ISO 639-3: qvi, 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	28.0%
Female Feminine	72.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Twenties	26.0%
Thirties	64.0%
Teens	10.0%

Text corpus

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	10196

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.

Sample

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

Yachakuna kichwa shimimanta
Kichwa rimak runakuna tukurin
Hatarichina runakunapa yuyaykunata
Makipurarishun sapiyachun  kawsarichun ñukanchi kichwa shimi
Kichwa shimi chinkarin

Automatic random samples

Mamawishita hatunmama urmachishka allpapi
Paya mama wakarka llakimanda
Kayachiparkanchik kay tantanakuyma
Wawata wiñachinkapa kunakunata tapurkani
Ñukapashmi chakrapi kani

Sources

Sentences were collected by Mr. Luis Córdova

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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.