Common Voice 18.0: Bilingual Welsh and English Speech Recordings

A bilingual dataset combining equal numbers of Welsh and English speech recordings from Common Voice version 18. The Welsh recordings were sourced from the train_all and other_with_excluded splits of the Welsh Common Voice corpus. An equal number of recordings were taken from the official English Common Voice version 18 training set, prioritizing those tagged with a British Isles accent. The dataset was created by author 'techiaith' and last updated on 2024-11 06.

Use Cases

• Train or fine-tune bilingual speech recognition models based on the described Welsh and English audio recordings.
• Develop accent detection or classification models based on the described prioritization of British Isles English accents.
• Conduct comparative linguistic analysis of speech patterns between Welsh and English based on the parallel recordings.
• Create or augment training data for speech synthesis systems in Welsh based on the described audio corpus.

Strengths

• Provides a balanced combination of Welsh and English speech recordings.
• Prioritizes English recordings with specific British Isles accents (e.g., Welsh, Scottish).
• Sourced from the established Common Voice version 18 corpus.

Limitations

• Row count, column names, and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Common Voice version 18 corpus.

Collection Method

Combined recordings from Welsh and English splits of the Common Voice corpus.

Time Range

Coverage corresponds to Common Voice version 18.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-11-06 13:50:01.

Geography

Includes Welsh language data and English data prioritized for British Isles accents.