Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Kateviri

کتہ وری — Kateviri (bsh)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Kateviri [کتہ وری - bsh]. The dataset contains 6844 clips representing 10 hours of recorded speech (9.89 hours validated) from 14 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 2,686 sentences.

Language

Kateviri is spoken in Afghanistan's province Noristan and in a few regions in Pakistan (Bumburait, Rumbur, Gobor). The number of speakers of Kateviri is around 40,000.

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: 0 of 6,844 clips (0.0%), 0 of 14 speakers (0.0%)

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: 5,783 of 6,844 clips (84.5%), 3 of 14 speakers (21.4%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 2,628 of 6,765 validated clips (38.8%)

The dataset contains 6765 validated, 45 invalidated, and 34 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.264 seconds.

Text corpus

The text corpus consists of transcriptions of spontaneous speech recorded from native Noristani speakers in natural conversations. The content includes everyday topics such as family, culture, daily routines, and local traditions. The dataset contains approximately 3000 to 5000 sentences and was collected primarily from speakers in and Bumburet, Rumbur, and Gabor valleys (Pakistan).

Validated sentences: 2,646

The corpus contains 2,686 sentences: 2,646 validated and 40 unvalidated (40 pending review, 0 rejected), with 2 reported for review.

Writing system

Parso Arabic

Symbol table

ا آ ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ڄ ح خ څ د ڈ ر ڑ ز ژ ڗ س ش ݜ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ݣ ل م ن ݨ ں ݩ و ہ ھ ٴ ی ے

Sample

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

1. کاٹ دمتں نہ وا سہ

2. تیو اِیموستہ اِجازت تݩع بغیر اینہ جائ پاتہ تے نہ الاش

3. امرامی تہ وشتویاش تیو رسولہ

4. شوں معش گڑیستہ سن پل چیراں گوا

5. آینہ تیو آینہ اوڅ

Sources

Recorded spontaneous conversations

Text domains

General, Agriculture and Food, Media and Entertainment, Nature and Environment, Language Fundamentals (e.g. Digits, Letters, Money)

Processing

The recordings were collected from native kate speakers, then manually transcribed. Background noise and silence were removed, and irrelevant parts were excluded. The text was checked for accuracy and aligned with the corresponding audio segments

Recommended post-processing

Yes. It is recommended to apply additional noise reduction, normalize audio levels, and perform a manual review of transcriptions for consistency. For advanced use, forced alignment and phonetic labeling can also improve the dataset quality

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

• Facebook group

• 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

• Nasir Mansoor

Citation guidelines

   @misc{noristani_dataset_2025,
   title        ={Noristani Spontaneous Speech Dataset},
   author       ={Arshad Nasir},
   year         ={2025},
   howpublished ={\url{https://commonvoice.mozilla.org}},
   note         ={Noristani language corpus for spontaneous speech}} 

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