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CC0-1.0
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Common VoiceDataset ID:
cmj8l8cuo00p1nlov9b8ynkjo
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 720.86 MB
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Sindhi.
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
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.
sd)This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Sindhi (sd). The dataset contains 34900 clips representing 39.76 hours of recorded
speech (0.36 hours validated) from 26 speakers.
Sindhi (سنڌي) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Sindh, Pakistan, and also in India. It has millions of speakers, a rich literary history, and is written in both Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts.
The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.
Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.
| Gender | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 89.0% |
| Male Masculine | 11.0% |
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 2.0% |
| Thirties | 11.0% |
| Fourties | 87.0% |
The Sindhi corpus consists of collected texts from newspapers, and social media. It contains more then one lacs sentences. The texts cover different domains, including literature, news, education, and everyday communication.
The Sindhi corpus is written in the Perso-Arabic script, which is the standard script used by Sindhi newspapers in Pakistan. It includes additional letters that represent Sindhi-specific sounds not found in standard Arabic.
The Sindhi Perso-Arabic script (used in newspapers) has 52 letters. Here is the full alphabet list separated by spaces:
ا ب ٻ ڀ پ ت ٿ ٽ ٺ ث ج جه ڄ چ ڇ ح خ د ڌ ڏ ڊ ڍ ذ ر ڙ ڍ ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ڦ ق ڪ گ ڳ گه ڱ ل ڻ ن ڃ م و ء ه ة ي ئ
There follows a randomly selected sample of sentences from the corpus.
ڳوٺ محمد ابراهيم سومرو ۾ پورهيت چاڪر سومرو جي گهر کي باهه لڳي وئي عوامي تحريڪ ضلعي صدر ايڊووڪيٽ نياز بھراڻي قتل ٿيل امجد علي لاشاري جي والد عرس لاشاري احتجاج ڪيو ايس ايس پي سنگهار ملڪ جي وڪيل جي پونيئرن سان تعزيت قوم سميت واٽر ڪارپوريشن جي سمورن آفيسرن ۽ ملازمن کي مبارڪون
Automatic random samples
اهي هاڻي اسلام آباد سان ڇا ڪندا؟
هن پوڊ ڪاسٽ ذريعي
ڪيترين روايتن موجب علي جي مٿي مان وهندڙ رت سندس ڏاڙهيءَ جو رنگ ڪري رهيو هو
مسٽر هيئن پڻ جارجيا پئسفڪ جي ڊرامائي ڦيرڦار جو بندوبست ڪيو
رسول الله ﷺ جن کي هن طرح بيان ڪيو آهي
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 34808 |
| General | 89 |
| Language Fundamentals | 3 |
The corpus was created by collecting texts from different Sindhi newspapers. The articles were gathered, cleaned to remove formatting issues, and then organized into a structured dataset for analysis.
It is recommended to clean the text for duplicate articles, normalize spellings, and remove unwanted symbols or formatting. Tokenization and sentence segmentation may also be useful for better analysis.
Common Voice Community
This dataset was created with funding support from Mozilla. Special acknowledgments to Meesam Alam ([email protected]) for contributions and support.
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.