The statistic reflects the distribution of languages in Canada in 2022. In 2022, 87.1 percent of the total population in Canada spoke English as their native tongue.

Data on language spoken at home by single and multiple responses of language spoken at home, mother tongue and age for the population excluding institutional residents for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

Data on languages spoken at home by mother tongue, immigrant status and period of immigration and first official language spoken for the population in private households in Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and parts.

Data on first official language spoken, language spoken most often at home, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents for Canada, provinces and territories and federal electoral districts.

Data on language spoken most often at home by age for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, provinces and territories.

Data on mother tongue, first official language spoken, knowledge of official languages, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents.

Introduction

Welcome to the Canadian English General Conversation Speech Dataset — a rich, linguistically diverse corpus purpose-built to accelerate the development of English speech technologies. This dataset is designed to train and fine-tune ASR systems, spoken language understanding models, and generative voice AI tailored to real-world Canadian English communication.

Curated by FutureBeeAI, this 30 hours dataset offers unscripted, spontaneous two-speaker conversations across a wide array of real-life topics. It enables researchers, AI developers, and voice-first product teams to build robust, production-grade English speech models that understand and respond to authentic Canadian accents and dialects.

Speech Data

The dataset comprises 30 hours of high-quality audio, featuring natural, free-flowing dialogue between native speakers of Canadian English. These sessions range from informal daily talks to deeper, topic-specific discussions, ensuring variability and context richness for diverse use cases.

Topic Diversity

The dataset spans a wide variety of everyday and domain-relevant themes. This topic diversity ensures the resulting models are adaptable to broad speech contexts.

Transcription

Each audio file is paired with a human-verified, verbatim transcription available in JSON format.

These transcriptions are production-ready, enabling seamless integration into ASR model pipelines or conversational AI workflows.

Metadata

The dataset comes with granular metadata for both speakers and recordings:

Such metadata helps developers fine-tune model training and supports use-case-specific filtering or demographic analysis.

Usage and Applications

This dataset is a versatile resource for multiple English speech and language AI applications:

This statistic shows the number of Aboriginal language speakers within each Aboriginal language family in Canada in 2016. There were 5,400 speakers of languages in the Siouan language family in Canada in 2016.

This statistic shows the distribution of official languages spoken by Aboriginal peoples in Canada in 2016. There were 8,080 Aboriginal people who spoke neither English nor French in Canada in 2016.

Data on mother tongue, knowledge of official languages, language spoken most often at home and other language(s) spoken regularly at home, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents.

In 2021, French was the first language spoken by over 71 percent of the population of Montréal, Québec in Canada. 20.4 percent of the city's residents had English as their first language, 6.7 percent used both English and French as their primary language, and 1.6 percent of the population spoke another language. That same year, 46.4 percent of people living in the province of Québec could speak both English and French.

Data on mother tongue, language spoken most often at home, other language(s) spoken regularly at home, knowledge of official languages, first official language spoken, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents.

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Data on first official language spoken, language spoken most often at home, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents for Canada, provinces, territories and economic regions.

Map of the number of individuals in official language minority communities (according to first official language spoken, adjusted responses) by economic region. Multiple responses distributed equally among respondents. Data from 2016 Census of Canada, 100% sample.

Data on first official language spoken by mobility status 5 years ago, language used most often at work, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021, highest certificate, diploma or degree and age for the population aged 15 years and over who worked since 2020, in private households of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas with parts.

Data on first official language spoken, language spoken most often at home, age and gender for the population excluding institutional residents for Canada and forward sortation areas.

This statistic shows the distribution of non-official languages spoken by Aboriginal peoples in Canada in 2011. There were 24,770 Ojibway speaking Aboriginal people in Canada in 2011.

This statistic shows the number of Aboriginal language speakers in Canada, by group, as counted in the 1996, 2001, and 2006 censuses, and the 2011 National Housing Survey. In 1996, 29,010 members of the Inuit population indicated knowledge of an Aboriginal language.

CRIC Survey on Official Languages The purpose of this survey is to gauge the importance Canadians place on learning French or English as a second language. The findings reveal that both francophones and anglophones believe bilingualism gives rise to numerous advantages, among them better career opportunities and personal fulfilment. The results also show that the majority of English-speaking Canadians outside Quebec would like to speak French and continue to favour that language for their children's secondlanguage instruction. Immigrants are also very receptive to official bilingualism, supporting the policy to an even greater degree than do their Canadian-born fellow citizens. Lastly, this survey suggests that young Canadians, particularly women, are most likely to see bilingualism as a means for maintaining national unity and as a driving force of Canadian identity.