Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Torwali

Locale: trw

Size: 146.54 MB

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

License: CC-0

توروالی — Torwali (trw)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Torwali (trw). The dataset contains 19 hours of recorded speech (19 hours validated) from 27 speakers.

Language

Torwali is an Indo-Aryan language belongs to its sub-group Dardic and is spoken by about 150k people in the upper mountainous reaches of the Swat valley in Pakistan

Variants

Sinkaen, Chail

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

There are more than 7000 sentences from various books produced in Torwali by the local indigenous organization Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) and its volunteers.

Writing system

The writing system is based on the Perso-Arabic script

Symbol table

أ، ا، اَ، آ، اِ، اُ، اُو، او، ای، اے، ب، پ۔ ت، ٹ، ث، ج، چ، ڇ، ح، خ، د، ڈ، ذ، ر، ڑ، ژ، ز، ڙ، س، ش، ݜ، ص، ض، ط، ظ، ع، غ، ک۔، گ، ف، ق، ل، م، ن، ں، ہ، ء، ے، ی؛ بھ، پھ، تھ، ٹھ، جھ، چھ، ڇھ، دھ، ڈھ، ڑھ، ڙھ، کھ، گھ، لھ، مھ، نھ

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus. تُوال شیِد ہُو ماشو آ کھأ بُورئی انگولا، مھیرے ݜا ئے تھیلی، ہے مھی شیرین لُوپٹا دُو زر تُوال ہُوئی شیِد ایگی سیدُو سی باچا، تھامُوڑ جأن چھی، نی ہی ئی دھیریِنا وا پنا مُھن وطن سی دارُو تھی شیِدل اُو او ہوا، کھأو دُھو وطنا خلگ یدی حسینا مُھن وطن قیمتی اب او ہوا ہی صفا، اُوتھل کھن سی پُوشُوا سی خائست غلبا آ ما برے نیِل تھام تُھو، مأ بھئنیِن چھیِجولا، بُوڑ بندی شُویودُو، تُو دھرئی تأنا آرزئیل یأ باغوان یدُو پُوشُو چرڑا، میِا کأرتے نیدُو اصیل مامیرا

Sources

  1. Torwali-Urdu-English Dictionary by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 2. Torwali-English Dictionary for Students by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 3. Torwali Folktales by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 4. Torwali children’s books by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 5. Inaan 1 by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 6. Inaan 2 by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 7. Jinnah si Qisa by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 8. Fatima Jinnah si Qisa by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 9. Allama Iqbal si Qisia by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 10. Kashmala by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 11. Sultan Bahu Si Qisa by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 12. Surat-e-Rahman si Tarjuma by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 13. Akhrir Dash Surata- si An Nimaaz si Tarjuma by Idara Baraye Taleem wa Taraqi (IBT) 14. Poetry by Javid Iqbal Torwali ‘ 15. Poetry by Zubair Torwali 16. Essays by Zubair Torwali 17. Essays by Aftab Ahmad 18. Essays by Nisar Ahmad Torwali 19. Essays by Rahim Sabir 20. Novel by Zubair Torwali

Text domains

General, Agriculture and Food, Automotive and Transport, Finance, Service and Retail, Healthcare, History, Law and Governmant, Media and Entertainment, Nature and Environment, News and Current Affairs, Technology and Robotics, Language Fundamentals (e.g. Digits, Letters, Money)

Processing

Audio recording of the text corpus

Recommended post-processing

To use it in AI

Community links

WhatsApp group, https://ibtnorthpakistan.org/

Discussions

https://web.facebook.com/share/p/177y8v6z3C/

Datasheet authors

  1. Zubair Torwali, email: ztorwali@gmail.com 2. Javid Iqbal Torwali, email: jitorwali@gmail.com 3. Nisar Ahmad Torwali email: ibtswat@gmail.com 4. Rahim Sabir, email: storwali@gmail.com 5. Aftab Ahmad email: aahmadangel@gmail.com 6. Sajad Ahmad email: sajadtorwali@gmail.com

Funding

Yes

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.