Balti-Tamko 02.1: Varient of the Continuous speech dataset for Balti ASR 02, with the corresponding transcriptions in Tibetan script.

Balti Continuous Speech Dataset Overview This version currently has speech dataset of 60 native Balti speakers, as pre processing all of the data requires to invest much time. Soon I will process and the rest of the datasets to complete the whole. (as in The Balti Continuous Speech Dataset comprises read speech recordings from 118 native Balti speakers (balanced gender representation) collected across the valleys of Baltistan in northern Pakistan. This corpus is designed to support automatic speech recognition (ASR) research and language preservation efforts for the endangered Balti language.) Key Specifications Volume: 813.25 MB Duration: 2h 40m 45s Samples: 2998 audio files (16-bit PCM WAV format, 44.1 kHz) Annotation: Yige (Tibetan script) to capture phonetic nuances and support cross-script ASR development. Data Structure Original Split: 80% training, 20% evaluation (held-out) Proposed Refinement: 80% training, 10% development (validation), 10% test File Format: Audio: .wav (librosa-compatible) Transcripts: .tsv (tab-separated) with S.No and Balti Sentence fields Validation & Quality Control All utterances were verified by native Balti linguists to ensure phonetic and lexical accuracy. Sentences were designed to cover 50 distinct linguistic patterns, balancing lexical diversity and ASR utility. Unique Value Proposition Cultural Preservation: First open corpus to pair Perso-Arabic and Yige (Tibetan) transcriptions, bridging modern and historical Balti orthographies. Research-Ready: Pre-structured for ASR pipelines (train/dev/test splits) with clear metadata. Low-Resource Focus: Addresses the scarcity of publicly available Balti speech data. Potential Applications Multilingual ASR for endangered languages Cross-script speech recognition (Perso-Arabic ↔ Yige) Phonetic studies of Tibetan-origin languages Ethical Compliance Speaker consent documented for research use Anonymized metadata (no PII retained)