Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Indus Kohistani

اباسیْن کوستَیں — Indus Kohistani (mvy)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Indus Kohistani [اباسیْن کوستَیں - mvy]. The dataset contains 18455 clips representing 24.56 hours of recorded speech (22.09 hours validated) from 56 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 6,856 sentences.

Language

Indus Kohistani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in District Lower Kohistan, Upper Kohistan, Gilgit Baltistan and other parts of Pakistan. There are few books written and published in this language. It is mainly a verbal language but currently young generation has started this language at social media platform and started to write in 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: 21 of 18,455 clips (0.1%), 2 of 56 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: 17,733 of 18,455 clips (96.1%), 12 of 56 speakers (21.4%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 6,581 of 16,601 validated clips (39.6%)

The dataset contains 16601 validated, 570 invalidated, and 1284 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 4.791 seconds.

Text corpus

Corpus contains more 6500 sentences from different open source documents or from published books of different authors with their permission and consent. Most of them were submitted to a local organisation which then forwarded to Common voice.

Validated sentences: 6,635

The corpus contains 6,856 sentences: 6,635 validated and 221 unvalidated (218 pending review, 3 rejected), with 90 reported for review.

Writing system

Perso-Arabic script

Symbol table

ا ب بھ پ پھ ت تھ ٹ ٹھ ث ج جھ چ جھ ڇ ڇھ ح خ څ څھ د دھ ڈ ڈھ ذ ر رھ ڑ ز زھ ژ ژھ ڙ ڙھ س ش ݜ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک کھ گ گھ ل لھ م مھ ن نھ ݨ و ہ ء ی ې ے

Sample

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

1. ”ہی مہ دڑ تھی“، ”ہی اے وئ تُھو“۔

2. (کاپھرہ واں دن بنژا تھی) او پُڑ ہون٘لؤں! آج تُس (دین قبلان٘لؤں نہ) الُوۡ بئ۔

3. بېکسیں اڅھکیۡ خُویں وَیں نھالُوں اُو تُور ہو تُھو۔

4. تے تلاں ترتیب لا سگائ ہِن الفاظواں شکلہ مہ پن٘ڑہ لا لیکیۡ ُتھو۔

5. اک جامع تے برابر معیاری تعلیماں حصولاں کِراں تئیں وعداں اعلان کراتےچہ

Sources

Text domains

General, Agriculture and Food, Automotive and Transport, Healthcare, History, Law and Governmant, Media and Entertainment, Nature and Environment, News and Current Affairs, Technology and Robotics, 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

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

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