SpeechDataAI/urdu-conversational-speech

Urdu Conversational Speech Dataset

1,000 hours of spontaneous two-person conversations in Urdu, recorded in Pakistan with 100 vetted native speakers. Dual-channel audio, time-aligned human-verified transcripts and speaker metadata, licensed for commercial ASR, TTS and voice AI training.

This repository is the dataset card only. The audio is licensed commercially and isn't hosted on Hugging Face. Free samples (audio, matching transcripts and the metadata schema) are sent on request: request Urdu samples.

Specifications

Language	Urdu
Recorded in	Pakistan
Speech type	Spontaneous two-person conversations
Volume	1,000 hours
Speakers	100 vetted native speakers
Audio	Dual-channel, one channel per speaker
Transcripts	Time-aligned, human-verified
Speaker metadata	Age, gender, region, recording device
Consent	Signed commercial-use consent from every speaker
License	Commercial, for training and evaluation
Price	$65 per hour of audio, volume and multi-language discounts on request

What makes Urdu hard for speech recognition

Urdu is written in Perso-Arabic script, usually without short vowels, so one written word can be read several ways. Spoken Urdu shares most of its grammar with Hindi but draws on Persian and Arabic vocabulary, and Pakistani speakers mix in plenty of English and Punjabi.

Built for

• Automatic speech recognition (ASR / STT)
• Text-to-speech and voice synthesis prosody
• Voice agents and IVR for Pakistan
• Speaker diarization and turn-taking models
• Speech LLM and audio-understanding fine-tuning

Getting the data

Request samples with a company email on the Urdu dataset page and the team replies with representative audio and transcripts so you can check quality, accents and transcript conventions before you buy. Need more hours, another dialect or your own recording setup? SpeechData.ai also collects speech data to spec, or you can book a call.

Need something else?

• Call center speech data for call-center style recordings.
• Audio annotation services to transcribe or annotate audio you already have.
• Speech data pricing with published per-hour prices.

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