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Release Date: 9/17/2026
Format: MP3
Size: 202.32 MB
A collection of spontaneous responses to questions in Gheg Albanian (Gheg Albanian).
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.
aln)This datasheet is for sps-corpus-5.0-2026-09-11 of the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Gheg Albanian [Gheg Albanian - aln]. The dataset contains 1654 clips representing 10.86 hours of recorded speech (10.49 hours validated) from 14 speakers.
Gheg Albanian (/ɡɛɡ/) is an Albanian dialect group spoken in northern and central Albania, Kosovo, northwestern North Macedonia, southeastern Montenegro, southern Serbia and southwestern Croatia. Identified by the ISO 639-3 code aln, it belongs to the Indo-European language family. There are estimated to be around four million speakers. There is no widely accepted writing system.
The dataset clips are categorised by transcription status and training-set assignment. The following tables summarise the distribution.
| Bucket | Clips | % |
|---|---|---|
| Transcribed & Validated | 1,516 | 91.7% |
| Transcribed & Pending | 0 | 0.0% |
| Not transcribed | 138 | 8.3% |
| Bucket | Clips | % |
|---|---|---|
| Train | 917 | 55.4% |
| Dev | 272 | 16.4% |
| Test | 327 | 19.8% |
| Unassigned | 138 | 8.3% |
Training split coverage: 1,516 of 1,516 transcribed & validated clips (100.0%)
The transcription of the entire dataset was done by a single individual, using the following guidelines:
In general, the standard Albanian writing system was used, with the following exceptions:
<Ε> was used in place of standard Albanian <ë> /ǝ/
<C> was used in place of standard Albanian <ç> /tš/
<gh> was used to represent /γ/
<hj> was used to represent /ç/
Prompts: 144
Duration: 39113172[ms]
Avg. Transcription Len: 198
Avg. Duration: 23.63[s]
Valid Duration: 37793.74[s]
Total hours: 10.86[h]
Valid hours: 10.5[h]
| Bucket | Clips | % |
|---|---|---|
| Validated | 1,516 | 100.0% |
| Pending | 0 | 0.0% |
| Edited | 103 | 6.8% |
There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.
A fle mir natën dhe sa or fle?
Më thuj pak historin e familjes tane.
A ka shpesh re ktu?
A din me i dhan makinës?
Çar lloj dokumentash duhen për me i çu në një shtet tjetër?
There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.
Pwr zotin, un luj letra boll, pse m pwlqen edhe jamtu luj me gjyshin
*Pse hikun njerzit nga kwtu edhe shkojn diku tjetwr? Po ikun njerzit, Ca jan njerzit, tash a... ka dal Cdo gja... duet me shku me pa xhana ma t reja, ma t bukra, ma t tjer edhe tan, kush asht ai njeri si nuk ka qef me hik me pa gjana t bukra, me shku me punu nw njw ven tjetwr, edhe ma t bukur, a kupton, nuk wsht se ashtu... *
Pwr zotin mu m pwlqen shum me vizatu, a shum e mir, jam edhe tesh jam tu bo pa zhart... pse jam t'u bo mir topt edhe jam tu vizatu m letwr, pwr zotin qysh t thom mana...
*Nuk kujdesem edhe sa duhet, po munohem sa ma shum me hec, me qwn aktive dhe me pi shum uj, edhe shpeshherw nuk i baj t gjitha po edhe munohem mos me hwngwr shum gjana me sheqer. *
Ca kam me uru pwr fmijt e mi. Un pwr fmijt e mi kam me uru tan xhanat e bots, pwr zotin, po.
Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:
client_id - hashed UUID of a given user
audio_id - numeric id for audio file
audio_file - audio file name
duration_ms - duration of audio in milliseconds
prompt_id - numeric id for prompt
prompt - question for user
transcription - transcription of the audio response
votes - number of people that who approved a given transcript
age - age of the speaker1
gender - gender of the speaker1
language - language name
split - for data modelling, which subset of the data does this clip pertain to
char_per_sec - how many characters of transcription per second of audio
quality_tags - some automated assessment of the transcription--audio pair, separated by |
transcription-length - character per second under 3 characters per second
speech-rate - characters per second over 30 characters per second
short-audio - audio length under 2 seconds
long-audio - audio length over 5 minutes
non-allowed-script - transcription contains characters from a writing system not associated with the language
mixed-script-words - a single word contains characters from multiple writing systems
mixed-script-transcription - transcription spans multiple writing systems, but each word consistently uses only one
Antonios Dimakis <[email protected]>
This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.
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