Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Khetrani
License:
CC0-1.0
Steward:
Common Voice
Task: ASR
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 207.86 MB
Description
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Khetrani.
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
کھیترانی — Ketrani (xhe)
This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Khetrani (xhe). The dataset contains 11603 clips representing 10.35 hours of recorded
speech (10.19 hours validated) from 11 speakers.
Language
Khetrani also called Khetranki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northeast Balochistan province of Pakistan mainly in Barkhan district but also in neighbouring districts, it is spoken by the Khetran people. About 200,000 people speak 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.
| Gender | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 100.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 15.0% |
| Twenties | 85.0% |
Text corpus
To create the corpus the Khetrani native speakers generated the sentences by themselves. There are almost around 5000 sentences created by the native speakers.
Writing system
As the writing system of Khetrani language is Indo-Aryan (Indo-Arabic) similiar to Urdu and Saraiki languages, the same system is used for the corpus.
Symbol table
ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ڈ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ہ ء ی ے ٻ ڄ ڋ ڳ ݨ
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of sentences from the corpus.
ظالم تا ہِک مُنشی ہا ظالم کم تا ٻُجھا ہِے ذال ہِک دُکان ݙے ڳئی ہِے کہ اَسے شیر ݙے ون٘ڄوں بیگھاوا آں ہِے
Automatic random samples
میک لالݨ ݙے
اَساں سٹاپ تی کھڑ کر ریسٹ کَیا سے
انڄیاں ہو تی کاٹ جڑ ڳئی ہِے
جئے تھاں وا ہو
ماں نِنگڑے پی ٹِھکین٘دی ہے
Text domains
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 11603 |
Processing
To create the corpus the Khetrani native speakers generated the sentences by themselves.
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Acknowledgements
Datasheet authors
Muhammad Hussain mhussainhassni1@gmail.com
Mubasher Kaleem mubasherkaleem@gmail.com
Meesum Alam meesum.alam12@gmail.com
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.