Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Balti

بلتی — Balti (bft)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Balti (bft). The dataset contains 19 hours of recorded speech (18 hours validated) from 156 speakers.

Language

Balti is known as the lingua franca in Baltistan, the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It is spoken in the four districts of Baltistan Division: Skardu, Ghanche, Shigar, Kharmang and some parts of Round District of Gilgit Baltistan. It is spoken by Eight Lac people.

Variants

General Balti has been represented in the datasets.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Age

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

Text corpus

The corpus have been collected from Balti books written by local Balti poets and writers.

Writing system

Perso-Arabic script has been used as the writing system of Balti language.

Symbol table

اب پ ت ٹ ث ج ڃ چ ڇ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ زڗ ژ س ش ݜ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ کٔ ل م ن نٚ ݨ و ہ ء ی ے

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus. Refer to the Common Voice Dataset please

Sources

Ehsan Ali Danish; novels and poetry Younus Jones

Text domains

General

Processing

Collected Balti books in soft form and extracted more than ten thousand sentences from the books with the prior consents of the respective writers.

Funding

Received funding from Common Voice through the respected consultant Dr Meesam Alam.

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.