Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Loja Highland 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

[Loja Highland Kichwa] — Loja Highland Kichwa (`qvj`)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Loja Highland Kichwa (qvj). The dataset contains 6746 clips representing 11.17 hours of recorded speech (10.84 hours validated) from 16 speakers.

Language

Loja Highland Kichwa, identified by the ISO 639-3: qvj, 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	20.0%
Female Feminine	80.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Twenties	58.0%
Thirties	2.0%
Fourties	39.0%

Text corpus

The average length of sentences is 6 tokens (40 characters).

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	6746

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:

Shunkullita mashama kararka
Tikramuy kikinpa muskuypi
Pawan ashtaka wayanaykuna tamia chayamuymanta
Hatarishka wayrawan pillpintushna
Hatarishka pillpintulaya kawsay yaya pachamamapi

Automatic random samples

Kunan kashaka wayra punlla.
Puentes vitelas mishitinchi inti raymita takinkapa.
Hatarirka yaya pututa.
Maskaspami kani mashikunta kichwa shimi yachakunkapa munakkunata.
Mana sakinachu kanchi hatuktaytata nirka ayllukuna.

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.