Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Shina
Locale: scl
Size: 207.02 MB
Task: ASR
Format: MP3
License: CC-0
شِینا — Shina (scl)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Shina (scl). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 39 speakers.
Language
Shina language is one of the major languages of Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan. It's spoken in Gilgit, Astore, Chilas, Kohistan and some areas in Sakrdu Baltistan. It is also spoken in some areas of India. Gilgiti and Astori dialects are considered to be its major dialects. The dialect spoken in Gilgit is known as the main and standard dialect.
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 | 98.0% |
| Female Feminine | 2.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 16.0% |
| Twenties | 2.0% |
| Thirties | 82.0% |
Text corpus
It mostly comes from textbooks, and social media platforms. There are one thousand sentences.
Writing system
The Shina language in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, is written in a variation of the Arabic script. This script is reported to be adapted to represent the unique sounds of the Shina language, with additional letters such as:
ݜ for /ʂ/
ڙ for /ʐ/
څ for /ts/
ڇ for /ʈʂ/
ݨ for /ɳ/
Symbol table
ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ څ ڇ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ ڙ س ش ݜ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ڠ ف ق ک گ ل م ن ݨ ں و ہ ھ ء ی ے
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
1۔ ووئی پییَموس۔
2. چہ ڇووں ہوں۔
3. راتی ڙینگی ہِیں۔
4. اوشی آلی۔
5. والو کھیݨ پھݜ بِیلو۔
Automatic random samples
کوتے کونڈدیوں ہانس وا ڙا۔
ا چھا، مُوسے استور ہوں بے تھے کال تھالوس، اٹینڈ نے تھو۔
کرومو شِداٹو بَٹھیئی ٹِیکیو شِداٹو نے بٹھئیی۔
پر آناؤ کھینیکے نی ولایت علی گہ سورانی تَش بونارے گالو۔
روزو موزینی ڈیر نوشِیں۔
Community links
Datasheet authors
Common Voice Community
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.