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Irish (Gaeilge) speech data for AI
How much open Irish speech data exists, where the gaps are, and how to get consented Irish data collected.
That is enough to start experiments, but far short of production speech recognition, which typically uses thousands of hours. Conversational, accent-balanced and domain-specific Irish audio remains scarce.
Source: Mozilla Common Voice language statistics, fetched 2026-11-05. Figures cover the open Common Voice corpus only.
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Questions
Where can I get Irish speech data for AI training?
Norynta collects Irish speech data to order from consenting native speakers: read prompts, natural conversations, transcripts and private evaluation sets, with a consent and origin record for every file. Request it at collect.norynta.com/buy. For open data, Mozilla Common Voice has 15 validated hours of Irish (as of 2026-11-05).
How much open Irish speech data is available?
As of 2026-11-05, Mozilla Common Voice lists 15 validated hours and 19 recorded hours of Irish from 285 speakers, ranking 93 of 445 languages by validated hours.
Can I get paid to record Irish?
Yes. Native Irish speakers can join Norynta's contributor waitlist at collect.norynta.com/join. We email paid recording and writing projects in Irish when they open, and pay once the work is accepted.
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