Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Indus Kohistani

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Task: ASR

Release Date: 12/5/2025

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Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Indus Kohistani.

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

اباسیْن کوستَیں — Indus Kohistani (mvy)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Indus Kohistani (mvy). The dataset contains 18475 clips representing 25 hours of recorded speech (22.46 hours validated) from 56 speakers.

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.

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
Undefined4.0%
Twenties39.0%
Thirties47.0%
Fourties6.0%
Fifties3.0%

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.

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 sentences from the corpus.

بال ہمېش تمیز ہِن آں اعتراض ہمېش دلیل ہن کری کو ڇہ پرہ تاؤں نہ څابُون اَیں بئ تھی ݜُو وَل لا مُسلماں آں بنو ہاشم ݜس ظِلم نہ مُچِل ݜیں صحابی یے ہُم نبیؐ پشے لس اېک وار اوک ابو طالبہ لا قُریشؤں چَکس آؤ

Automatic random samples

او ڙھا تیں بال لر نی تھی، نہ مہ زُنازُو تیں مُخالیۡفت کرم تُھو
چے سِوَیں ژؤن٘دُناں مُختلف حالتیُوں مہ
ادا کرَیں لاقَت لہ تَنہی نی ہُوئ تھی۔
دویُوں مِثال ݜے تھُو چے کماݜ لازمی کمہۡ (واجب)
مُوڙ (چُن٘ڑ بول)، گُو (تھُل بول) یا

Text domains

DomainCount
Undefined18245
Agriculture Food33
General108
History Law Government78
Media Entertainment11
Nature Environment7
Technology Robotics9

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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.