Urdu Raw Speech Corpus
SKU: LDCIL-165 | Model: 1177 | ISBN: 978-81-7343-276-7
Description & Overview
99:18:21 Hours | 64.2 GB | 499 Speakers | 88,708 Audio Segments | 48 kHz | 16 bit wav.
Urdu is one of the
Modern Indo-Aryan languages of India. It evolved from Shaurseni
Apabhramsha. It uses Persio-Arabic script. The language in a region is
influenced by other languages of the region, mother tongue of the speaker, etc.
The reading speed, loudness, frequency etc. also differ depending on certain
factors like age, gender etc. Linguistic data consortium collected the speech
corpus through fieldwork. This read data is collected from various age groups
of male and female native speakers. This data includes Texts, Sentences, Date
Formats, and different wordlists.
The available Speech Corpus details:
Total Speakers - 499 (252 Female and 247 Male)
|
Domains |
Audio Segments |
Each Domain Duration |
|
Contemporary
Text (News) |
431 |
25:35:02 |
|
Creative Text |
433 |
19:40:11 |
|
Sentence |
10,646 |
8:00:38 |
|
Date Format |
846 |
0:43:37 |
|
Command and
Control Words |
13,580 |
9:21:01 |
|
Person Name |
6,577 |
2:55:41 |
|
Place Name |
4,273 |
1:09:17 |
|
Most Frequent
Word - Part |
12,802 |
7:46:28 |
|
Most Frequent
Word - Full Set |
18,927 |
11:38:30 |
|
Phonetically Balanced Vocabulary |
13,646 |
8:13:20 |
|
Form and Function Word |
6,547 |
4:14:36 |
A detailed
explanation of the Urdu Speech Corpus will be available in the Urdu Speech Data
Documentation.
For any research based citations, please use the following citations:
- Ramamoorthy, L., Narayan Choudhary, Mansoor Khan, Shahnawaz Alam, Bi Bi Mariyam & Rushda Idris Khan. 2019. Urdu Raw Speech Corpus. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
- Choudhary, Narayan, Rajesha N., Manasa G. & L. Ramamoorthy. 2019. “LDC-IL Raw Speech Corpora: An Overview” in Linguistic Resources for AI/NLP in Indian Languages. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. pp. 160-174.
Dataset Specifications
| Authors | Ramamoorthy L., Narayan Choudhary, Mansoor Khan, Shahnawaz Alam, Bi Bi Mariyam, Rushda Idris Khan, |
|---|---|
| Corpus Type | Raw Corpus |
| Catalogue Number | 1177 |
| ISBN | 978-81-7343-276-7 |
| Data Source | On Field |
| Duration | 99:18:21 |
| # of Audio Segments | 88708 |
| Release Date | 04-Apr-2019 |
| Terms and Conditions | General instructions for use of the resources provided by LDC-IL. |