Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Kalasha

Description

A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Kalasha.

Specifics

Licensing

CC0 1.0 Universal

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

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

Kalasha — Kalasha (`kls`)

This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Kalasha (kls). The dataset contains 9948 clips representing 10.48 hours of recorded speech (10.3 hours validated) from 23 speakers.

Language

Kalasha language is an endangered language, spoken in the 3 kalash valleys of Hindukush in Pakistan.

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	64.0%
Twenties	6.0%
Fourties	30.0%

Text corpus

Roman corpus text, there are lots sentences

Writing system

Roman Kalasha language

Sample

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

A jonim dai
tu jonis dai
se joniu dai
abi jonik dai
se maw dai

Automatic random samples

Se dawtar una hatya paraw
Asi hatya kia tayar kai as?
Suri pec' kariu dai
Malgeri an som prus't asaw e?
Saw thi mai ajonan

Sources

Kalasha people

Text domains

Domain	Count
Undefined	9948

Processing

Pontoon

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Community links

Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Discussions

Mozilla foundation, Facebook, Instagram

Acknowledgements

Datasheet authors

[email protected]

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.