Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Khetrani

کھیترانی — Khetrani (xhe)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Khetrani [کھیترانی - xhe]. The dataset contains 11572 clips representing 9.74 hours of recorded speech (9.62 hours validated) from 11 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 5,042 sentences.

Language

Khetrani also called Khetranki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northeast Balochistan province of Pakistan mainly in Barkhan district but also in neighbouring districts, it is spoken by the Khetran people. About 200,000 people speak it.

Accents

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following self-declared age and gender distributions. A coverage summary is shown below each table.

Gender

Self-declared gender information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare a gender are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.

Gender declared: 5 of 11,572 clips (0.0%), 1 of 11 speakers (9.1%)

Age

Self-declared age information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare an age are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.

Age declared: 9,884 of 11,572 clips (85.4%), 3 of 11 speakers (27.3%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 4,985 of 11,429 validated clips (43.6%)

The dataset contains 11429 validated, 129 invalidated, and 14 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 3.032 seconds.

Text corpus

To create the corpus the Khetrani native speakers generated the sentences by themselves. There are almost around 5000 sentences created by the native speakers.

Validated sentences: 5,040

The corpus contains 5,042 sentences: 5,040 validated and 2 unvalidated (2 pending review, 0 rejected), with 1 reported for review.

Writing system

As the writing system of Khetrani language is Indo-Aryan (Indo-Arabic) similiar to Urdu and Saraiki languages, the same system is used for the corpus.

Symbol table

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

Sample

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

1. عِیّوں سُستی کیم

2. ٻِیال مینجی سکول تی تیاری

3. تاجا ناں ٻِیا ای میل جینی معلومات

4. ٻال آپݨے ماں، ابو تی ذمہ داری ہون٘دا ہے

5. سارے کمرے لین ساں ہین

Sources

Text domains

General, Language Fundamentals (e.g. Digits, Letters, Money)

Processing

To create the corpus the Khetrani native speakers generated the sentences by themselves.

Fields

Clips

Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:

• client_id - hashed UUID of a given user

• path - relative path of the audio file

• text - supposed transcription of the audio

• up_votes - number of people who said audio matches the text

• down_votes - number of people who said audio does not match text

• age - age of the speaker1

• gender - gender of the speaker1

• accents - accents of the speaker1

• variant - variant of the language1

• segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here

• prompt_upvotes - number of upvotes the sentence prompt received

• prompt_reports - number of reports the sentence prompt received

• is_edited - whether the clip's transcription has been edited

validated_sentences.tsv

The validated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per validated sentence in the text corpus:

• sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence

• sentence - the sentence text

• variant - the variant of the language

• sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to

• source - the source the sentence was collected from

• is_used - whether the sentence is still in circulation for recording

• clips_count - number of clips recorded for this sentence

unvalidated_sentences.tsv

The unvalidated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per unvalidated sentence in the text corpus:

• sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence

• sentence - the sentence text

• variant - the variant of the language

• sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to

• source - the source the sentence was collected from

• up_votes - number of upvotes the sentence received

• down_votes - number of downvotes the sentence received

• status - current status of the sentence (pending or rejected)

Get involved

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

• Common Voice Communities

Discussions

• Common Voice on Matrix

• Common Voice on Discourse

• Common Voice on Discord

• Common Voice on Telegram

Contribute

• Speak

• Write

• Listen

• Review

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

• Muhammad Hussain

• Mubasher Kaleem

• Meesum Alam

Funding

This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.

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.

Footnotes

1. For a full list of age, gender, and accent options, see the demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4