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Release Date: 8/19/2026
Format: WAV, TSV
Size: 6.02 GB
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This dataset is a high-quality Single Speaker Urdu Text-to-Speech (TTS) corpus designed to support the development and evaluation of commercial Urdu speech synthesis systems. It contains professionally recorded speech from a single native Urdu speaker, paired with accurate text transcriptions to provide consistent speech-text alignment. The recordings cover a diverse range of words, phrases, and sentences, helping models learn natural Urdu pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation while maintaining a consistent speaking style. The dataset is suitable for training commercial TTS models, voice generation systems, speech technology research, and benchmarking speech synthesis performance in Urdu.
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MDC Data Licence Agreement 1.0
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Intended Use
Intended to be used for training commercial TTS models, voice generation systems, speech technology research, and benchmarking speech synthesis performance in Urdu.
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language and the national language of Pakistan, spoken by millions of people worldwide. It is widely used in education, media, literature, and everyday communication. Urdu has a rich linguistic heritage and plays an important role in the development of speech and language technologies for low-resource languages.
Urdu (Perso-Arabic script): ا، ب، پ، ت، ٹ، ث، ج، چ، ح، خ، د، ڈ، ذ، ر، ڑ، ز، ژ، س، ش، ص، ض، ط، ظ، ع، غ، ف، ق، ک، گ، ل، م، ن، ں، و، ہ، ھ، ء، ی، ے۔
Speaker-1 (ID: urd1): Single native Urdu speaker (Female).
File type: WAV (Studio Quality)
Bit-depth: 16-Bit PCM
Audio sampling rate: 44.1 kHz
Background noise: ≤ −80 dBFS (typical average)
Reverberation time (RT60): Estimated ~0.18–0.25 seconds
Channel: Mono
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR): ~65.9 dB (average)
| Domain | Clip count |
|---|---|
| Literature | 4512 |
| Travel-&-Tourism | 2017 |
| Informal-Urdu | 561 |
| Educational-Content | 553 |
| Cultural-Content | 2237 |
| Social-Media-Style | 366 |
| Health-&-Awareness | 402 |
| Religious | 1675 |
| News-&-Current-Affairs | 814 |
| General-Knowledge | 157 |
| Technology-&-Digital-Literacy | 941 |
| Story-Telling | 1295 |
| Drama-Scripts | 400 |
