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Release Date: 6/17/2026
Format: MP3
Size: 8.57 GB
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A collection of read speech recordings in Tamil (தமிழ்).
Restrictions/Special Constraints
None provided.
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.
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.
ta)This datasheet is for cv-corpus-26.0-2026-06-12 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Tamil [தமிழ் - ta]. The dataset contains 247671 clips representing 425.33 hours of recorded speech (234.79 hours validated) from 981 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 118,842 sentences.
| Code | Accent | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | 5,139 (2.1%) | 50 (5.1%) |
The dataset includes the following self-declared age and gender distributions. A coverage summary is shown below each table.
Self-declared gender information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare a gender are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.
| Code | Gender | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| male_masculine | Male, masculine | 46,918 (18.9%) | 306 (31.2%) |
| female_feminine | Female, feminine | 38,203 (15.4%) | 137 (14.0%) |
| transgender | Transgender | - | - |
| non-binary | Non-binary | - | - |
| do_not_wish_to_say | Prefer not to say | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 162,550 (65.6%) | 642 (65.4%) |
Gender declared: 85,121 of 247,671 clips (34.4%), 339 of 981 speakers (34.6%)
Self-declared age information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare an age are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.
| Code | Age | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| teens | Teens | 9,429 (3.8%) | 24 (2.4%) |
| twenties | Twenties | 26,825 (10.8%) | 240 (24.5%) |
| thirties | Thirties | 29,463 (11.9%) | 112 (11.4%) |
| fourties | Fourties | 6,688 (2.7%) | 52 (5.3%) |
| fifties | Fifties | 6,090 (2.5%) | 24 (2.4%) |
| sixties | Sixties | 748 (0.3%) | 4 (0.4%) |
| seventies | Seventies | 4,814 (1.9%) | 4 (0.4%) |
| eighties | Eighties | 85 (0.0%) | 1 (0.1%) |
| nineties | Nineties | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 163,529 (66.0%) | 627 (63.9%) |
Age declared: 84,142 of 247,671 clips (34.0%), 354 of 981 speakers (36.1%)
Clip buckets
| Bucket | Clips |
|---|---|
| Validated | 136,719 (55.2%) |
| Invalidated | 5,749 (2.3%) |
| Other | 105,203 (42.5%) |
Training splits
| Split | Clips |
|---|---|
| Train | 46,519 (34.0%) |
| Dev | 12,168 (8.9%) |
| Test | 12,241 (9.0%) |
Training split coverage: 70,928 of 136,719 validated clips (51.9%)
The dataset contains 136719 validated, 5749 invalidated, and 105203 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 6.182 seconds.
Validated sentences: 118,292
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Unvalidated sentences | 550 |
| Pending sentences | 549 |
| Rejected sentences | 1 |
| Reported sentences | 3,437 |
The corpus contains 118,842 sentences: 118,292 validated and 550 unvalidated (549 pending review, 1 rejected), with 3,437 reported for review.
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
அமைவாய் விளக்கை அங்கையில் தூக்கிச்
பல காலம் போராடித் தேவர்களுக்கு அவர்களுடைய ராஜ்யத்தைத் திரும்பவும் வாங்கிக் கொடுத்த கருணையாளன் அல்லவா நீ?
அவனுக்கு இன்.அமுது படைத்து அருகிருந்து பரிமாறும் நிலையில் அவள் அன்பு வெளிப் படுகிறது.
அவனைக் கண்டு ஒவ்வோர் அரசியல் தலைவனும் வெட்கப்படல் வேண்டும்.
அதன் காரணமாகக் கெட்ட போரிடும் உலகமே தோன்றியுள்ளது.
| Source | Sentences |
|---|---|
| wikisource-ta | 99,615 (84.2%) |
| covost2-en_ta | 12,170 (10.3%) |
| sentence-collector | 6,115 (5.2%) |
| Other | 392 (0.3%) |
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
sentence - the sentence to be read aloud
sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence
sentence_domain - domain classification(s) of the sentence
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
accents - accents of the speaker1
variant - variant of the language1
locale - locale code of the language
segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here
validated_sentences.tsvThe validated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per validated sentence in the text corpus:
sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence
sentence - the sentence text
variant - the variant of the language
sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to
source - the source the sentence was collected from
is_used - whether the sentence is still in circulation for recording
clips_count - number of clips recorded for this sentence
unvalidated_sentences.tsvThe unvalidated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per unvalidated sentence in the text corpus:
sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence
sentence - the sentence text
variant - the variant of the language
sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to
source - the source the sentence was collected from
up_votes - number of upvotes the sentence received
down_votes - number of downvotes the sentence received
status - current status of the sentence (pending or rejected)
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.
For a full list of age, gender, and accent options, see the demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4