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CC0-1.0
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Common VoiceDataset ID:
cmj8l8d3e00u9nlov1o04z0ml
Release Date: 12/5/2025
Format: MP3
Size: 207.86 MB
A collection of scripted spoken phrases in Khetrani.
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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.
xhe)This datasheet is for version 24.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Khetrani (xhe). The dataset contains 11603 clips representing 10.35 hours of recorded
speech (10.19 hours validated) from 11 speakers.
Khetrani also called Khetranki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northeast Balochistan province of Pakistan mainly in Barkhan district but also in neighbouring districts, it is spoken by the Khetran people. About 200,000 people speak it.
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 | 100.0% |
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 15.0% |
| Twenties | 85.0% |
To create the corpus the Khetrani native speakers generated the sentences by themselves. There are almost around 5000 sentences created by the native speakers.
As the writing system of Khetrani language is Indo-Aryan (Indo-Arabic) similiar to Urdu and Saraiki languages, the same system is used for the corpus.
ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ڈ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ہ ء ی ے ٻ ڄ ڋ ڳ ݨ
There follows a randomly selected sample of sentences from the corpus.
ظالم تا ہِک مُنشی ہا ظالم کم تا ٻُجھا ہِے ذال ہِک دُکان ݙے ڳئی ہِے کہ اَسے شیر ݙے ون٘ڄوں بیگھاوا آں ہِے
Automatic random samples
میک لالݨ ݙے
اَساں سٹاپ تی کھڑ کر ریسٹ کَیا سے
انڄیاں ہو تی کاٹ جڑ ڳئی ہِے
جئے تھاں وا ہو
ماں نِنگڑے پی ٹِھکین٘دی ہے
| Domain | Count |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 11603 |
To create the corpus the Khetrani native speakers generated the sentences by themselves.
Muhammad Hussain [email protected]
Mubasher Kaleem [email protected]
Meesum Alam [email protected]
This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund managed by Mozilla Common Voice.
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.