Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway)

Norsk Nynorsk — Norwegian Nynorsk (nn-NO)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Norwegian Nynorsk (nn-NO). The dataset contains 1.7 hours of recorded speech (1.5 hours validated) from 40 speakers.

Language

Norwegian Nynorsk is a written standard of Norwegian. The standard is the preferred written standard of around 10-15% of the Norwegian population and is largely based on the Norwegian dialects of the West of Norway.

The language code is nn and the locale is nn-NO (Nynorsk as written in Norway). Note that this locale includes the region code for historical reasons relating to the localisation platform. The dataset contains Norwegian as spoken anywhere and as written in the Nynorsk standard.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Age

Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Text corpus

The average length of sentences is 7 tokens (42 characters).

Writing system

Norwegian is written in the Latin script. The text corpus also contains a limited amount of punctuation.

Symbol table

Sample

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

Dette med følg boka skjønte eg heller ikkje heilt vitsen med.
Eg har ikkje mykje om kap.
Ei rettssak er i grunnen ein fin måte å stille ting i relieff på.
Kva er forklaringa på at regjeringa enno ikkje har følgt dette opp?
Eg gler meg også til å lesa.

Automatic random samples

Har vurdert å laga eit slektskart!
Derfor bruker eg ikkje å setje om sitat frå andre språk enn norsk.
Ein av dei fremste språkpedagogane i Norden er Viljo Kohonen.
Les ho gjerne!
Eg seier ofte at eg ikkje likar krim.

Sources

• Korpus med bokomtalar frå Bokelskere.no (Public domain)

• Stortingskorpuset 1.1 (Public domain)

• Individual sentences submitted by users through the Mozilla Common Voice interface (Public domain)

Text domains

The corpus was initially seeded with sentences from

• Book reviews and book discussions (from the web community bokelskere.no)

• Transcribed and manually checked discussions from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget), from 2017 to 2018

Later, several individual users have contributed sentences in various domains through Mozilla's web interface.

Processing

Both sources include sentences in both Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.

Norwegian Nynorsk candidate sentences were extracted by both excluding Bokmål-only words and including Nynorsk-only words:

These candidate sentences were then checked by two writers of Nynorsk to ensure that they were indeed written in Nynorsk before inclusion into the corpus.

Get involved!

To get more information about this dataset and find out how you can contribute, please take a look at the following links.

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Discussions

• Merging Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål (2024)

• Norwegian speech and its dialect and sentence problem (2018)

Contribute

• Contribute voice recordings

• Contribute sentences

• Validate recordings

• Review sentences

Datasheet authors

• Francis M. Tyers ftyers@iu.edu

• Kevin B. Unhammer unhammer@fsfe.org

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.