Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Kalasha

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CC0-1.0

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Steward:

Common Voice

Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

Format: MP3

Size: 205.53 MB


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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Kalasha.

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

Kalasha — Kalasha (kls)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Kalasha (kls). The dataset contains 9948 clips representing 10.48 hours of recorded speech (10.3 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.

GenderPercentage
Undefined100.0%

Age

Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Age BandPercentage
Undefined64.0%
Twenties6.0%
Fourties30.0%

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

DomainCount
Undefined9948

Processing

Pontoon

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Community links

Discussions

Mozilla foundation, Facebook, Instagram

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

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.