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Conversational Urdu speech dataset

Spontaneous two-party Urdu conversation — the kind of audio that voice agents, call analytics and meeting tools actually encounter in production, and the kind that read-speech corpora never contain.

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Datasheet summary

What is in Conversational Urdu Speech

Two-party spontaneous telephone and in-person conversation, verbatim transcripts, speaker diarization, balanced across 4 age bands and urban/rural.

Dataset ID	TDA-SP-001
Modality	Speech
Languages / coverage	Urdu (Karachi, Lahori, standard)
Typical first delivery	200–500 hrs
Free sample	2–5 hours of audio with transcripts and full metadata, within one business day
Provenance	Collected in Pakistan; collection date, location, contributor pseudonym, device profile and consent version on every record
Licence	Perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable; derivative-model rights stated explicitly. Exclusivity optional. Licensing detail
Delivery	Your S3, GCS or Azure bucket with manifests, checksums, QA report and datasheet
Guarantee	14-day acceptance window; anything outside signed tolerance re-collected free

Included in every delivery

Two-party spontaneous dialogue, telephone and in-person
Verbatim transcripts with speaker diarization
Balanced across four age bands and urban/rural
Karachi, Lahori and standard Urdu varieties represented

Built for

Fine-tuning Whisper, MMS or wav2vec 2.0 checkpoints for conversational Urdu ASR
Diarization and turn-taking models for Urdu voice agents and IVR
Call analytics, summarisation and intent detection on real dialogue
Building a held-out test set that reflects real users rather than studio speakers

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Start with the free sample, then a pilot

Request 2–5 hours of audio with transcripts and full metadata from Conversational Urdu Speech — identical in format and quality to the paid corpus, no watermark, no sales call. Pilots are creditable against production and start within five business days of a signed SOW.

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Average first response under 6 business hours. NDA signed same day.

Consent form, licence text and DPA available before you commit
Datasheet lists composition, QA method and known limitations
Subsets by language, region or condition on request
Custom collection to your spec using the same protocol

Answers

Questions about this dataset

Spontaneous. Contributors hold real two-party conversations; nothing is scripted or read from prompts. Transcripts are verbatim, so disfluencies, repairs and overlap are preserved rather than cleaned away.

Recruitment is quota-controlled across four age bands and an urban/rural split, with Karachi, Lahori and standard Urdu varieties represented. The datasheet lists the exact composition of each delivery.

Yes. Request a free, unwatermarked sample pack — typically 2–5 hours of audio with transcripts and the full datasheet — delivered within one business day, no sales call required.

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