Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 5.0 - Bukusu

Bukusu — Bukusu (bxk)

This datasheet is for sps-corpus-5.0-2026-09-11 of the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Bukusu [Bukusu - bxk]. The dataset contains 2875 clips representing 13.88 hours of recorded speech (10.03 hours validated) from 27 speakers.

Data splits for modelling

The dataset clips are categorised by transcription status and training-set assignment. The following tables summarise the distribution.

Audio clips

Training splits

Training split coverage: 2,059 of 2,059 transcribed & validated clips (100.0%)

Transcriptions

Transcription status

Samples

Questions

There follows a randomly selected sample of questions used in the corpus.

1. Bulayi siina bwesi khunyala khwarawo mubirekere byefe?

2. Butinyu siina bwesi bakhasi nende bakhana babiramo khushalo?

3. Wibasha bakhana khushalo bali nende khutsa khwisomelo?

4. Umwami enyekhana khukhola sii nga etabu eliwo khushalo?

5. Khulwasina siili silayi khusinga tsingubo?

Responses

There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.

1. Khubirisya babandu nende sisa khubela khukana babandu babe balayi balakhulomana taa, babirane taa, barere lukosi khusyalo syefwe.

2. Indi nono winyukha wacha wayima ekasii walisya efwamili.

3. Basawo ebukanda butinyu bwesi babiramo, silalakho indi sebasasulibwa bulayi chisendi taa, syakhabili bibindu byesi barambisya sebibawo taa ebyo nibyo bitwelakho butinyu bwesi basawu muyuga! au ibukanda bafuna.

4. Babandu bakharambaa banyola buwangafu bwekhukhwiba bibindu byebabandu, baliba nende enjjala engali engo wabwe, babandu bano babonabona mushalo.

5. *Bilyo nibyo endya naba nende bulamu bulayi, mulimo kamaki, kamatore, kamayindi, kamapwondi, chinyenyi ebyo byosi nga nendile birera bulamu bulayi kakila eba balansiti dayate. *

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

• 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

Get involved

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

• Common Voice Communities

Discussions

• Common Voice on Matrix

• Common Voice on Discourse

• Common Voice on Discord

• Common Voice on Telegram

Contribute

• Contribute questions

• Validate questions

• Answer questions

• Transcribe recordings

• Validate transcriptions

Acknowledgements

Funding

This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.

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 demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2