Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Balti
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 360.30 MB
Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Balti.
Specifics
Considerations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
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Forbidden Usage
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Processes
Intended Use
This dataset is intended to be used for training and evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. It may also be used for applications relating to computer-aided language learning (CALL) and language or heritage revitalisation.
Metadata
بلتی — Balti (bft)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Balti (bft). The dataset contains 19 hours of recorded
speech (18 hours validated) from 156 speakers.
Language
Balti is known as the lingua franca in Baltistan, the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It is spoken in the four districts of Baltistan Division: Skardu, Ghanche, Shigar, Kharmang and some parts of Round District of Gilgit Baltistan. It is spoken by Eight Lac people.
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.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 78.0% |
| Female Feminine | 13.0% |
| Do Not Wish To Say | 10.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 27.0% |
| Twenties | 37.0% |
| Thirties | 35.0% |
| Teens | 1.0% |
Text corpus
The corpus have been collected from Balti books written by local Balti poets and writers.
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script has been used as the writing system of Balti language.
Symbol table
اب پ ت ٹ ث ج ڃ چ ڇ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ زڗ ژ س ش ݜ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ کٔ ل م ن نٚ ݨ و ہ ء ی ے
Sources
Ehsan Ali Danish; novels and poetry Younus Jones
Text domains
General
Processing
Collected Balti books in soft form and extracted more than ten thousand sentences from the books with the prior consents of the respective writers.
Community links
Datasheet authors
Common Voice Community
Funding
Received funding from Common Voice through the respected consultant Dr Meesam Alam.
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.