Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Loarki
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CC0-1.0
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Common VoiceTask: ASR
Release Date: 3/22/2026
Format: MP3
Size: 229.18 MB
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Description
A collection of read speech recordings in Loarki (lrk).
Specifics
Considerations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
None provided.
Forbidden Usage
It is forbidden to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice datasets. It is forbidden to re-host or re-share this 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
lrk — Loarki (lrk)
This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Loarki [lrk - lrk]. The dataset contains 11770 clips representing 11.37 hours of recorded speech (11.07 hours validated) from 20 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 2,006 sentences.
Language
Loarki is spoken by around 520,000 people in Sindh in Pakistan and in Rajasthan in India.
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.
| Code | Gender | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| male_masculine | Male, masculine | - | - |
| female_feminine | Female, feminine | 2,006 (17.0%) | 1 (5.0%) |
| transgender | Transgender | - | - |
| non-binary | Non-binary | - | - |
| do_not_wish_to_say | Prefer not to say | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 9,764 (83.0%) | 19 (95.0%) |
Gender declared: 2,006 of 11,770 clips (17.0%), 1 of 20 speakers (5.0%)
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.
| Code | Age | Clips | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| teens | Teens | 4,022 (34.2%) | 3 (15.0%) |
| twenties | Twenties | 3,339 (28.4%) | 7 (35.0%) |
| thirties | Thirties | 60 (0.5%) | 6 (30.0%) |
| fourties | Fourties | 2,282 (19.4%) | 3 (15.0%) |
| fifties | Fifties | 101 (0.9%) | 2 (10.0%) |
| sixties | Sixties | 1,956 (16.6%) | 1 (5.0%) |
| seventies | Seventies | - | - |
| eighties | Eighties | - | - |
| nineties | Nineties | - | - |
| - | Unspecified | 10 (0.1%) | 2 (10.0%) |
Age declared: 11,760 of 11,770 clips (99.9%), 18 of 20 speakers (90.0%)
Data splits for modelling
Clip buckets
| Bucket | Clips |
|---|---|
| Validated | 11,462 (97.4%) |
| Invalidated | 185 (1.6%) |
| Other | 123 (1.0%) |
Training splits
| Split | Clips |
|---|---|
| Train | 1,654 (14.4%) |
| Dev | - |
| Test | 347 (3.0%) |
Training split coverage: 2,001 of 11,462 validated clips (17.5%)
The dataset contains 11462 validated, 185 invalidated, and 123 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 3.48 seconds.
Text corpus
Validated sentences: 2,006
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Unvalidated sentences | - |
| Pending sentences | - |
| Rejected sentences | - |
| Reported sentences | - |
The corpus contains 2,006 sentences: 2,006 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.
Writing system
Latin Sindhi
Symbol table
اآب ٻ ڀ ت ٿ ٺ ث ٽ ج ڄ چ ڇ خ ح د ڌ ڏ ڊ ذ ر ڙ ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ڦ ڪ و ک ل م ن ڻ و ه ھ ي
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
ھون جاوُ رھيو ھون ڪراچو گومياني
ھين اي مون امون ني خبر پڙي ھي
وات چيت ڪري تي
ڪراچي ري آبادي باقي مون وديڪ ھي
مارو پيتا مني ڌاڌو پيار ڪري ھي
Sources
Nand kishore
| Source | Sentences |
|---|---|
| Self | 2,005 (100.0%) |
Text domains
General
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 userpath- relative path of the audio filetext- supposed transcription of the audioup_votes- number of people who said audio matches the textdown_votes- number of people who said audio does not match textage- age of the speaker1gender- gender of the speaker1accents- accents of the speaker1variant- variant of the language1segment- if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed hereprompt_upvotes- number of upvotes the sentence prompt receivedprompt_reports- number of reports the sentence prompt receivedis_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 sentencesentence- the sentence textvariant- the variant of the languagesentence_domain- the domain(s) the sentence belongs tosource- the source the sentence was collected fromis_used- whether the sentence is still in circulation for recordingclips_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 sentencesentence- the sentence textvariant- the variant of the languagesentence_domain- the domain(s) the sentence belongs tosource- the source the sentence was collected fromup_votes- number of upvotes the sentence receiveddown_votes- number of downvotes the sentence receivedstatus- current status of the sentence (pendingorrejected)
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Acknowledgements
Datasheet authors
Common Voice Community
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
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