Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Kalasha
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 205.54 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Kalasha.
Specifics
Considerations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
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Forbidden Usage
You agree not to attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice 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
Kalasha — Kalasha (kls)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Kalasha (kls). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 23 speakers.
Language
Kalasha language is an endangered language, spoken in the 3 kalash valleys of Hindukush in Pakistan.
Demographic information
The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.
Gender
Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 100.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 64.0% |
| Twenties | 6.0% |
| Fourties | 30.0% |
Text corpus
Roman corpus text, there are lots sentences
Writing system
Roman Kalasha language
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
A jonim dai
tu jonis dai
se joniu dai
abi jonik dai
se maw dai
Automatic random samples
Se dawtar una hatya paraw
Asi hatya kia tayar kai as?
Suri pec' kariu dai
Malgeri an som prus't asaw e?
Saw thi mai ajonan
Sources
Kalasha people
Text domains
General, Agriculture and Food, Nature and Environment
Processing
Pontoon
Community links
Discussions
Mozilla foundation, Facebook, Instagram
Datasheet authors
Funding
Meesum Alam: meesum.alam12@gmail.com
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.