Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Yiddish
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 42.69 MB
Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Yiddish.
Specifics
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
אידיש — Yiddish (yi)
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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Yiddish (yi). The dataset contains 1999 clips representing 2.2 hours of recorded
speech (2.01 hours validated) from 124 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.
| Gender | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 100.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 77.0% |
| Twenties | 6.0% |
| Thirties | 6.0% |
| Teens | 11.0% |
Data splits for modelling
The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 78.58% are included in the splits.
| Split | Count |
|---|---|
| Train | 521 |
| Test | 444 |
| Dev | 381 |
Text corpus
The text corpus contains 1633 sentences, of which 1548 are validated, 85 are invalidated and 12 are reported.
Writing system
Symbol table
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
אָבער נישט פאַר זייער לאַנג האָבן זיי געהאַט מנוחה
אונזער ציל איז צו פאַרשפּרייטן אידישקייט איין מצוה אויפאַמאָל
האָט ער באַקומען דעם אַנטוואָרט
זאָלן דײַנע ביינער זיך ברעכן אַזוי אָפֿט ווי די עשׂרת–הדיברות.
זי שטאַמט פון מאַראַנאָס
Sources
Text domains
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 1981 |
| Finance | 2 |
| General | 13 |
| History Law Government | 100.0% |
| Nature Environment | 3 |
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 userpath- relative path of the audio filetext- supposed transcription of the audioup_votes- number of people who said audio matches the textdown_votes- number of people who said audio does not match textage- age of the speaker1gender- gender of the speaker1accent- accent of the speaker1segment- if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here
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Acknowledgements
Datasheet authors
Citation guidelines
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
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
