techiaith/commonvoice_16_1_en_cy

Dataset Card for Welsh and English Common Voice Corpus 16.1

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

This dataset consists of curated selection of 179,854 MP3 recordings with corresponding text files from the Welsh and English language Common Voice 16.1 release.

All recordings tagged as being with an English accent from the UK and Ireland are included. The dataset contains an equal balance 50/50 between Welsh and English recordinds.

Dataset Sources

• https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/cy/datasets

• https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets

References

@inproceedings{commonvoice:2020,
  author = {Ardila, R. and Branson, M. and Davis, K. and Henretty, M. and Kohler, M. and Meyer, J. and Morais, R. and Saunders, L. and Tyers, F. M. and Weber, G.},
  title = {Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)},
  pages = {4211--4215},
  year = 2020
}

More Information

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