---
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    dtype: audio
  - name: text
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    num_examples: 2984
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configs:
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  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
language:
- ks
language_name:
- Kashmiri
task_categories:
- text-to-speech
pretty_name: Kashmiri Single Speaker TTS Corpus
license: cc-by-nc-3.0
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Kashmiri Single Speaker TTS Corpus

## Overview

This repository provides a single-speaker Kashmiri Text-to-Speech (TTS) corpus in Perso-Arabic script.
The dataset consists of paired speech recordings and text transcriptions intended for training and evaluating neural text-to-speech systems.
All recordings were produced by a single male native Kashmiri speaker.

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## Dataset Statistics

| Property | Value |
|----------|------:|
| Number of utterances | 2984 |
| Total duration | 4.42 hours |
| Average utterance duration | 5.33 s |
| Speaker count | 1 |
| Language | Kashmiri |
| Script | Perso-Arabic |
| Audio format | WAV |
| Sampling rate | 48 kHz |

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## Example

| Audio | Text |
|------|------|
| 2.wav | زِپھ نہ کران  زۄل نہ کران |

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## Intended Uses

This dataset is intended for

- Neural Text-to-Speech
- Voice Cloning
- Speech Representation Learning
- Alignment Models
- Pronunciation Modeling
- Low-resource speech research

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## Source Dataset

This Hugging Face dataset is a structured redistribution of the publicly available **KTTS Single Speaker Dataset**. The original dataset contains 2,984 single-speaker Kashmiri recordings sampled at 48 kHz together with aligned text transcriptions. It was created to support the development of Kashmiri text-to-speech systems and was recorded using a single male speaker after text collection and quality filtering.

Original source:

https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/5c4dcvxdmb/2

Contributors:

- Kh Mohmad Shafi
- Asif Ali Bhat
- Kamran Imtiyaz
- Javaid Iqbal

Institution:

University of Kashmir

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## License

Please follow the license of the original dataset.

CC BY-NC 3.0

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## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original publication.

```
@dataset{KTTS2024,
  author = {Shafi, Kh Mohmad and Bhat, Asif Ali and Imtiyaz, Kamran and Iqbal, Javaid},
  title = {KTTS Single Speaker Dataset},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Mendeley Data},
  version = {2},
  doi = {10.17632/5c4dcvxdmb.2}
}
```