---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: sentence
    dtype: string
  - name: language
    dtype: string
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
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    num_examples: 128171
  - name: dev
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  - name: test
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    num_examples: 26419
  - name: test_cy
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  - name: test_en
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    num_examples: 13210
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configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: dev
    path: data/dev-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
  - split: test_cy
    path: data/test_cy-*
  - split: test_en
    path: data/test_en-*
license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
language:
- cy
- en
pretty_name: Welsh and English Common Voice Corpus 18.0
---
# Dataset Card for Welsh and English Common Voice Corpus 16.1

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

This dataset consists of curated of MP3 recordings with corresponding text files from the Welsh and English language Common Voice 18.0 release. 
The dataset contains an equal balance (50/50) of Welsh and English speech recordinds. All recordings tagged in the Common Voice project as 
accented English from Wales, the UK and Ireland are included. 

### 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

You agree to not attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset

Why request access? On its website, the Mozilla Foundation require an e-mail before downloading, in case they need to contact you in 
the future about changes to the dataset. An email provides us a point of contact for passing on messages.