Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Dhatki

[Dhatki] — Dhatki (mki)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Dhatki (mki). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 12 speakers.

Language

Dhatki is a regional Indo-Aryan language, mainly spoken in Sindh (Pakistan) and Rajasthan (India). It is very close to Sindhi and Rajasthani, written in different scripts depending on the region, and mostly used in daily conversation, folk songs, and local stories.

Variants

The dataset may contain two main varieties of Dhatki: Sindh (Pakistan) variety, Sindhi-influenced, written in Perso-Arabic script. Rajasthan (India) variety, Marwari-influenced, written in Devanagari script.

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 Dhatki corpus used in this project consists of original sentences written by the researcher. Unlike other collections that rely on religious texts or folk stories, this corpus is self-constructed (Rishi Parkash) to represent natural and everyday usage of Dhatki.

Writing system

The corpus is written in the Sindhi script. While Dhatki can be written in either Perso-Arabic (Sindhi-based) or Devanagari, this dataset follows the Sindhi convention, reflecting the variety spoken in Pakistan (Sindh).

Symbol table

My corpus is written Sindhi, Sindhi script has 52 letters. ا ب ٻ پ ڀ ت ٿ ٽ ٺ ث ج ڄ جھ چ ڇ ح خ د ڌ ڊڍ ڏ ڍ ذر ر ڙ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ڦ ق ڪ گ ڳ ڱ ل ڻ ن ڃ م ء و ؤ ۏ ه ء ي ءَ ءِ ءُ

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.

1. تايو نالو ڪي هي. 2. سيورو جلدي اٺڻ سٺي بات هي. 3. آپرو ڪم آپ ڪرڻ کپي. 4. ڪراچي سنڌ صوبي رو شهر. 5. ٿري ڌاٽڪي ٻولي ٻولي ٿا.

Sources

The corpus is entirely based on original sentences written by the Rishi Parkash in Dhatki (Sindhi script), reflecting natural language use. No external written sources were used.

Text domains

General, Service and Retail, Healthcare, Nature and Environment, Language Fundamentals (e.g. Digits, Letters, Money)

Processing

The corpus was created by composing original sentences in Dhatki, typing them in Sindhi script, and then editing for accuracy and consistency. Sentences were cleaned, standardized, and organized into a digital format for use in analysis.

Recommended post-processing

no

Funding

This work was funded by Mozilla. I gratefully acknowledge the support and guidance of Meesam Alam (Meesam.alam12@gmail.com).

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.