Common Voice Scripted Speech 27.0 - Asheninka Perene

Asheninka Perene — Asheninka Perene (prq)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-27.0-2026-09-11 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Asheninka Perene [Asheninka Perene - prq]. The dataset contains 7660 clips representing 10.05 hours of recorded speech (9.74 hours validated) from 13 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 986 sentences.

Language

The Asheninka are a South America first nation and their language belong to the Arawak linguistic family, they are primarily located in the central Peruvian rainforest between the eastern Andes and the Ucayali River, a region known as the Gran Pajonal due to its extensive tropical grasslands. Their cultural identity is deeply tied to their language, ancestral practices, and a profound connection to their territory, which they view as essential to their livelihood and cultural distinctiveness. This relationship fosters a strong ethic of environmental respect and sustainability, central to their organized community structure and long-standing desire for formal recognition separate from other Indigenous groups.

Accents

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following self-declared age and gender distributions. A coverage summary is shown below each table.

Gender

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.

Gender declared: 6,434 of 7,660 clips (84.0%), 10 of 13 speakers (76.9%)

Age

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.

Age declared: 7,660 of 7,660 clips (100.0%), 13 of 13 speakers (100.0%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 986 of 7,422 validated clips (13.3%)

The dataset contains 7422 validated, 59 invalidated, and 179 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 4.726 seconds.

Text corpus

On average, sentences consist of six words and contain a total of forty letters.

Validated sentences: 986

The corpus contains 986 sentences: 986 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

Writing system

The Asheninka alphabet was officially established by Executive Order No. 199-2019-MINEDU issued by Peruvian Ministry of Education. The alphabet is composed by 22 graphemes.

Sample

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

1. Nojatsi noshimaiteta.

2. Kitaiteri koki.

3. Tsame akonate.

4. Antaro tanaatake ichera charine.

5. Noyoperotimi.

Sources

Sentences were written by Mr. Pablo Jacinto.

Fields

Clips

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.tsv

The 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.tsv

The 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)

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

• Speak

• Write

• Listen

• Review

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

• Luis Camacho

Citation guidelines

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:

    @article{Camacho_2024, 
    title   ={Automating the Proposition of Neologisms for the Quechua Language},  
    volume  ={54}, DOI={10.1017/S0025100324000227}, 
    number  ={3}, 
    journal ={Journal of the International Phonetic Association}, 
    author  ={Camacho, Luis}, 
    year    ={2024}, 
    pages   ={922–938}} 

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 ↩3 ↩4