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Release Date: 6/17/2026
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A collection of read speech recordings in Kichwa (qvi).
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.
qvi)This datasheet is for cv-corpus-26.0-2026-06-12 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Kichwa [qvi - qvi]. The dataset contains 10196 clips representing 12.53 hours of recorded speech (11.39 hours validated) from 15 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 1,149 sentences.
Imbabura Highland Kichwa or just Kichwa, identified by the ISO 639-3: qvi, belongs to the Quechua II group.
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 | - | - |
| female_feminine | Female, feminine | 7,294 (71.5%) | 11 (73.3%) |
| transgender | Transgender | - | - |
| non-binary | Non-binary | - | - |
| do_not_wish_to_say | Prefer not to say | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 2,902 (28.5%) | 6 (40.0%) |
Gender declared: 7,294 of 10,196 clips (71.5%), 9 of 15 speakers (60.0%)
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 | 1,061 (10.4%) | 2 (13.3%) |
| twenties | Twenties | 2,628 (25.8%) | 4 (26.7%) |
| thirties | Thirties | 6,497 (63.7%) | 8 (53.3%) |
| fourties | Fourties | - | - |
| fifties | Fifties | - | - |
| sixties | Sixties | - | - |
| seventies | Seventies | - | - |
| eighties | Eighties | - | - |
| nineties | Nineties | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 10 (0.1%) | 3 (20.0%) |
Age declared: 10,186 of 10,196 clips (99.9%), 12 of 15 speakers (80.0%)
Clip buckets
| Bucket | Clips |
|---|---|
| Validated | 9,268 (90.9%) |
| Invalidated | 237 (2.3%) |
| Other | 691 (6.8%) |
Training splits
| Split | Clips |
|---|---|
| Train | 406 (4.4%) |
| Dev | 363 (3.9%) |
| Test | 379 (4.1%) |
Training split coverage: 1,148 of 9,268 validated clips (12.4%)
The dataset contains 9268 validated, 237 invalidated, and 691 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 4.427 seconds.
Validated sentences: 1,149
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Unvalidated sentences | - |
| Pending sentences | - |
| Rejected sentences | - |
| Reported sentences | - |
The corpus contains 1,149 sentences: 1,149 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.
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.
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
Sapallu muyutami tarpuna kani
Mukunkunawan kana kan kay allpaka
Ñuka sisapampapi tiyan pillpintukuna
Wawakunaka pukllashpami yachakun
Pactashka pankapi kimichiy mañay
Sentences were collected by Mr. Luis Córdova
| Source | Sentences |
|---|---|
| Luis Córdova (self) | 349 (30.4%) |
| Cecilia Conejo (self) | 299 (26.0%) |
| Angelina Gualapuro (self) | 251 (21.8%) |
| Adela Muenala (self) | 250 (21.8%) |
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)
Luis Camacho
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}}
This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.
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