Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Quechua Sihuas Ancash

qws — Quechua Sihuas Ancash (qws)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-26.0-2026-06-12 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Quechua Sihuas Ancash [qws - qws]. The dataset contains 8977 clips representing 10.38 hours of recorded speech (10.26 hours validated) from 12 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 998 sentences.

Language

Sihuas Ancash Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qws, belongs to the Quechua I group.

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: 4,984 of 8,977 clips (55.5%), 6 of 12 speakers (50.0%)

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: 6,967 of 8,977 clips (77.6%), 6 of 12 speakers (50.0%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 998 of 8,879 validated clips (11.2%)

The dataset contains 8879 validated, 2 invalidated, and 96 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 4.164 seconds.

Text corpus

The average length of sentences is 6 tokens (40 characters).

Validated sentences: 998

The corpus contains 998 sentences: 998 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

Writing system

Quechua language is written in the Latin script. All Quechua dialects form words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.

Symbol table

Following the rules established by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Chawpin qichwata qillqanapaq maytu. Manual de escritura quechua central

Sample

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

1. Charkitaqa llamapitami rurayan.

2. ¿Imataq shutiyki?

3. Rumi hanantrawmi pishqu kaykan.

4. Sarata mutita yanukushun.

5. Washaman ishpayta hitramuy.

Sources

Sentences were written by Mr. Franklin Espinoza

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