Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Albanian

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CC0-1.0

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Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 190.24 MB


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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Albanian.

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

Shqip — Albanian (sq)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Albanian (sq). The dataset contains 6538 clips representing 9.29 hours of recorded speech (9.01 hours validated) from 150 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
Undefined39.0%
Male Masculine47.0%
Female Feminine14.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined24.0%
Twenties9.0%
Thirties16.0%
Fourties18.0%
Fifties34.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 99.84% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train2658
Test1936
Dev1645

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 52643 sentences, of which 50009 are validated, 2634 are invalidated and 134 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

Filloi nga puna edhe një galeri e artit figurativ.
Por, edhe më në hall janë ata që kanë paguar.
Kosh plehrash, apo një shkretëtirë.
Ata i mori në pyetje gjyqtari Zoran Dimiq.
Humbja e të drejtës për ushtrimin e avokatisë.

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined1576
General1801
History Law Government3136
News Current Affairs25

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

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