Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Pahari-Potwari
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CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 9/15/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 282.84 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Pahari-Potwari.
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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
[Pahari-Pothwari] — Pahari-Pothwari (phr)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Pahari-Pothwari (phr). The dataset contains 15 hours of recorded
speech (15 hours validated) from 63 speakers.
Language
Pahari-Pothwari is a group of dialects spoken in the Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan, and across the border in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The name is a combination of two closely related dialect clusters: Pahari (literally "of the hills") and Pothwari (referring to the Pothohar region). Pahari-Pothwari belongs to the Indo-Aryan family of languages. It shares lexical and grammatical similarity with these languages.
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 | 70.0% |
| Female Feminine | 30.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 29.0% |
| Twenties | 52.0% |
| Thirties | 17.0% |
| Fourties | 2.0% |
Text corpus
The dataset comprises a speech corpus totaling 15 hours, containing 2,077 Pahari sentences. The primary source for the corpus was the published books by Dr. Muhammad Saghir Khan, a distinguished literary figure and academician from Rawalakot, Poonch. This was supplemented with a smaller collection of sentences gathered from the daily conversations of native Pahari speakers. The entire set of written sentences was then recorded by 63 native speakers, all of whom are residents of the Poonch region of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Writing system
The writing system used for the corpus is based on the Urdu orthography. The corpus was written using the same Urdu script and follows the right-to-left direction of Urdu.
The Urdu alphabet was utilized for transcription.
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of sentences from the corpus.
پتہ نئیں کوئِیاں اس نی سوچ بسرے ویلے گئی اُٹھی ایہھے کرنیاں بانیاں او اپنے نکوٹے نے ویلے نیاں گلاں بانے لاغے اُنی اج پھیدری پھیدری شازیہ باقیں کولا ٹھوالی انیں وچ جوان کڑیاں جنگت نالے اس نے ہم قوم زیادے سے کہھڑی چھٹ ہور لنگتھی
Automatic random samples
ایہہ تاڑی اس نے اندر کُتے بہوں ڈونغی اولی گئی
ہر سوراخے وچ انگلی نی دینی چاہنی
ہن اس دیکھنی سی کہ عمران راتی وی دیریا کنے اینا سا
میں ضرور کی کرساں
انین پچھلے ویلیاں نی ایہہ گل وی سی
Sources
Published books of Dr. Muhammad Saghir Khan. Daily conversation of Pahari speakers.
Text domains
General
Processing
The text was written in Unicode, following the conventions of Urdu orthography.
Community links
Datasheet authors
Dr. Muhammad Saghir Khan saghirrawlakot@gmail.com
Funding
This datasheet was created with funding from the Mozilla Foundation. Meesum Alam (meesum.alam12@gmail.com) served as the resource person, coordinating the dispersal of the funds on behalf of Mozilla.
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.