Release Date: 9/17/2026
Format: MP3
Size: 1.55 GB
A collection of read speech recordings in Estonian (eesti).
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.
et)This datasheet is for cv-corpus-27.0-2026-09-11 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Estonian [eesti - et]. The dataset contains 37180 clips representing 69.4 hours of recorded speech (52.96 hours validated) from 1127 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 14,591 sentences.
| Code | Accent | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1,411 (3.8%) | 42 (3.7%) |
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 | 17,781 (47.8%) | 419 (37.2%) |
| female_feminine | Female, feminine | 9,689 (26.1%) | 213 (18.9%) |
| transgender | Transgender | - | - |
| non-binary | Non-binary | - | - |
| do_not_wish_to_say | Prefer not to say | 70 (0.2%) | 3 (0.3%) |
| - | Unspecified | 9,640 (25.9%) | 521 (46.2%) |
Gender declared: 27,540 of 37,180 clips (74.1%), 606 of 1,127 speakers (53.8%)
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 | 40 (0.1%) | 3 (0.3%) |
| twenties | Twenties | 26,259 (70.6%) | 692 (61.4%) |
| thirties | Thirties | 2,873 (7.7%) | 57 (5.1%) |
| fourties | Fourties | 1,346 (3.6%) | 19 (1.7%) |
| fifties | Fifties | 195 (0.5%) | 6 (0.5%) |
| sixties | Sixties | - | - |
| seventies | Seventies | 24 (0.1%) | 1 (0.1%) |
| eighties | Eighties | - | - |
| nineties | Nineties | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 6,443 (17.3%) | 387 (34.3%) |
Age declared: 30,737 of 37,180 clips (82.7%), 740 of 1,127 speakers (65.7%)
Clip buckets
| Bucket | Clips |
|---|---|
| Validated | 28,375 (76.3%) |
| Invalidated | 8,167 (22.0%) |
| Other | 638 (1.7%) |
Training splits
| Split | Clips |
|---|---|
| Train | 3,531 (12.4%) |
| Dev | 2,911 (10.3%) |
| Test | 2,911 (10.3%) |
Training split coverage: 9,353 of 28,375 validated clips (33.0%)
The dataset contains 28375 validated, 8167 invalidated, and 638 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 6.72 seconds.
Validated sentences: 11,118
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Unvalidated sentences | 3,473 |
| Pending sentences | 3,446 |
| Rejected sentences | 27 |
| Reported sentences | 575 |
The corpus contains 14,591 sentences: 11,118 validated and 3,473 unvalidated (3,446 pending review, 27 rejected), with 575 reported for review.
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
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Sain aru, et mind oli surmast lahutanud võib-olla üks minut ja üks kilomeeter.
Lava taga aga lapsi superstaarile lähedale ei lastud.
Arutlesime omavahel, mis lähinädalatel Eestis toimuma hakkab ja paari sõnaga ka jaanipäevast.
Viimatiste tuntumate ettevõtete turuväärtus börsile tulemise päeval oli Twitteril 31 miljardit 7. novembril 2013 ning 4,5 miljardit dollarit LinkedInil 19. mail 2011.
| Source | Sentences |
|---|---|
| est-common-voice-10k | 10,000 (89.9%) |
| Self Citation | 556 (5.0%) |
| covost2-en_et | 244 (2.2%) |
| Other | 318 (2.9%) |
| Code | Domain | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| general | General | 736 (2.0%) | 193 (17.1%) |
| agriculture_food | Agriculture and Food | 75 (0.2%) | 61 (5.4%) |
| automotive_transport | Automotive and Transport | 52 (0.1%) | 43 (3.8%) |
| finance | Finance | 45 (0.1%) | 37 (3.3%) |
| service_retail | Service and Retail | 15 (0.0%) | 15 (1.3%) |
| healthcare | Healthcare | 44 (0.1%) | 39 (3.5%) |
| history_law_government | History, Law and Government | 49 (0.1%) | 43 (3.8%) |
| media_entertainment | Media and Entertainment | 66 (0.2%) | 52 (4.6%) |
| nature_environment | Nature and Environment | 120 (0.3%) | 80 (7.1%) |
| news_current_affairs | News and Current Affairs | 32 (0.1%) | 31 (2.8%) |
| technology_robotics | Technology and Robotics | 62 (0.2%) | 51 (4.5%) |
| language_fundamentals | Language Fundamentals | 23 (0.1%) | 21 (1.9%) |
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