Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Cantonese

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CC0-1.0

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Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 5.98 GB


Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Cantonese.

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

粵語 — Cantonese (yue)

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This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Cantonese (yue). The dataset contains 279240 clips representing 307.71 hours of recorded speech (210.91 hours validated) from 1174 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
Undefined20.0%
Male Masculine17.0%
Female Feminine62.0%

Age

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

Age BandPercentage
Undefined19.0%
Twenties29.0%
Thirties47.0%
Teens1.0%
Fourties4.0%

Data splits for modelling

The official data splits for modelling this language are as follows. Of the validated clips, 9.25% are included in the splits.

SplitCount
Train7420
Test5130
Dev5130

Text corpus

The text corpus contains 28726 sentences, of which 18551 are validated, 10175 are invalidated and 2257 are reported.

Writing system

Symbol table

Sample

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

你做咩唔同你啲兄弟食嘢?
我有幾咁憎你
搞錯啊!唔得啊!
你有冇諗過同我哋傾下先?
真係非常抱歉啊

Sources

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined276394
Agriculture Food18
Automotive Transport51
Finance128
Service Retail606
General1678
Healthcare417
History Law Government67
Media Entertainment192
Nature Environment188
News Current Affairs114
Technology Robotics95

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