Common Voice: Metadata and Versioning for Open Speech Data

Common Voice metadata and versioning details provided by the common-voice organization, last updated in March 2026. This repository tracks the evolution and release history of the global open-source speech corpus. It serves as the administrative layer for managing dataset releases across multiple languages.

Use Cases

• Tracking release versions for reproducible speech-to-text model training
• Auditing dataset growth and version history for the Common Voice project
• Managing dataset dependencies in speech recognition pipelines

Strengths

• Official metadata from the common-voice organization
• MPL-2.0 permissive open-source license
• Updated through 2026

Limitations

• Metadata only—does not include raw audio files
• Unknown column structure in the provided source

Provenance

Source

common-voice organization on GitHub

Collection Method

annotated

Time Range

Up to 2026

Freshness

Highly current, with the last update recorded in March 2026.

Geography

Global