Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Eastern Balochi

Specifics

Licensing

CC0-1.0

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Considerations

Restrictions/Special Constraints

You agree that you will not re-host or re-share this dataset

Forbidden Usage

You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset

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

بلوچی — Eastern Balochi (`bgp`)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Eastern Balochi (bgp). The dataset contains 14 hours of recorded speech (13 hours validated) from 25 speakers.

Language

Eastern Balochi is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by the Baloch people, primarily in eastern Balochistan (Pakistan), as well as in parts of Punjab and Sindh. It is one of the major dialects of Balochi and has significant mutual intelligibility with Western and Southern Balochi. Around 2 million people speak Eastern Balochi.

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	99.0%
Female Feminine	1.0%

Age

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

Age Band	Percentage
Undefined	95.0%
Twenties	5.0%

Text corpus

CORPUS from Baloch Academy, more than 10 million words.

Writing system

As the writing system of Eastern Balochi is similar to the Perso-Arabic system used in Urdu and Persian, the same system is also used for question and response transcriptions.

Symbol table

ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن ں و ہ ء ی ے ۔ ؟

Sample

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

Automatic random samples

من ترا یل نہ دے آں۔
آئی ءِ کمکار ( اسٹنٹ ) پہ زہر کنگی آواں ہکّل دیاں اَت
تو پہ چیا گوک ءِ رگام
بلے چُوداں ہم ہمے پسّہ ئے رَست کہ تئی سَوَب ءَ ما بلاہیں پرٛوشے ءِ دیمپان بُوتاں
اے چے پیمیں گوٛازی ئےبوئگءَ اِنت

Sources

https://ebook.balochiacademy.org/

Text domains

Healthcare, Nature & environment, Language Fundamentals (e.g. Digits, Letters, Money)

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.