Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Eastern Balochi

بلوچی — Eastern Balochi (bgp)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Eastern Balochi [بلوچی - bgp]. The dataset contains 8507 clips representing 12.8 hours of recorded speech (11.5 hours validated) from 28 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 6,997 sentences.

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.

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: 55 of 8,507 clips (0.6%), 1 of 28 speakers (3.6%)

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: 997 of 8,507 clips (11.7%), 3 of 28 speakers (10.7%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 6,786 of 7,645 validated clips (88.8%)

The dataset contains 7645 validated, 214 invalidated, and 648 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.418 seconds.

Text corpus

CORPUS from Baloch Academy, more than 10 million words.

Validated sentences: 6,997

The corpus contains 6,997 sentences: 6,997 validated and 0 unvalidated (0 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

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.

1. آئی ءِجند نوں مارگ ءَ اِنت کہ کار چوش ارزان نہ اِنت کہ آسرپد بوئگءَ اِنت کارانی تہا بازیں پیچ ءُتاب مان اَنت

2. کاف ءَکاگد چہ آئی ءِ دست ءَ پچ گپت

3. بانک! من مومس ءِ منت ءَ کلام ءَ سربوئگ نہ لوٹاں

4. کلام ءِکاردار انچو حراب نہ بوتگ اَنت بلئے دگہ بازیں

5. سَجھیناں/دراھیں ادب ءِ تہ ءَ گپ ءُ تران کنگی اِنت۔

Sources

https://ebook.balochiacademy.org/

Text domains

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

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

SHUMAILA AMAN amanshumaila@gmail.com

Citation guidelines

https://ebook.balochiacademy.org/

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