Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Cantonese
License:
CC0-1.0
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.
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
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.
| Gender | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 20.0% |
| Male Masculine | 17.0% |
| Female Feminine | 62.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 19.0% |
| Twenties | 29.0% |
| Thirties | 47.0% |
| Teens | 1.0% |
| Fourties | 4.0% |
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.
| Split | Count |
|---|---|
| Train | 7420 |
| Test | 5130 |
| Dev | 5130 |
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
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 276394 |
| Agriculture Food | 18 |
| Automotive Transport | 51 |
| Finance | 128 |
| Service Retail | 606 |
| General | 1678 |
| Healthcare | 417 |
| History Law Government | 67 |
| Media Entertainment | 192 |
| Nature Environment | 188 |
| News Current Affairs | 114 |
| Technology Robotics | 95 |
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
