Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Eastern Balochi
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CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 270.90 MB
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Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Eastern Balochi.
Specifics
Considerations
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
بلوچی — Eastern Balochi (bgp)
This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Eastern Balochi (bgp). The dataset contains 7903 clips representing 13.36 hours of recorded
speech (12.86 hours validated) from 25 speakers.
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.
Variants
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 | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 99.0% |
| Female Feminine | 1.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 95.0% |
| Twenties | 5.0% |
Text corpus
CORPUS from Baloch Academy, more than 10 million words.
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.
Automatic random samples
من ترا یل نہ دے آں۔
آئی ءِ کمکار ( اسٹنٹ ) پہ زہر کنگی آواں ہکّل دیاں اَت
تو پہ چیا گوک ءِ رگام
بلے چُوداں ہم ہمے پسّہ ئے رَست کہ تئی سَوَب ءَ ما بلاہیں پرٛوشے ءِ دیمپان بُوتاں
اے چے پیمیں گوٛازی ئےبوئگءَ اِنت
Sources
https://ebook.balochiacademy.org/
Text domains
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 7903 |
Processing
Recommended post-processing
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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.