Middle East & North Africa · Arabic / Latin
Kurdish Short Video Speech Dataset
Kurdish short video speech sourced to your specification — no inventory, no fixed listing. This page covers what is specifically hard about this pairing, and which fields your specification needs to pin down.
Why short video speech in Kurdish is its own problem
Kurdish short-video speech arrives fast and colloquial, in one branch or the other, with background music underneath and the creator's second language mixed in mid-clip. Much of it is produced by diaspora creators, so the second language is often Turkish, Arabic, or a European one, and the loanword layers follow where the creator lives. Background music is near-universal and often Kurdish music, so stripping it removes part of the content's identity — the decision is not neutral here. And a Kurmanji clip and a Sorani clip look identical in a feed but need different annotators.
The field to pin down first: Each clip carries a branch tag and the creator's country of residence, and the delivery states whether background music was removed or retained, since that changes what the data can train.
At a glance
| Language | Kurdish |
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| Primary region | Middle East & North Africa |
| Writing system | Arabic / Latin |
| Category | Short Video Speech |
| Specification field to settle first | Each clip carries a branch tag and the creator's country of residence, and the delivery states whether background music was removed or retained, since that changes what the data can train. |
| Delivery | Sourced to order, pilot batch before the full run |
What short video speech data is
Speech in the talking-head style of short video — fast, emotionally strong, colloquial — used for short video subtitles and content understanding.
What buyers get wrong about it
Short video speech spans a wide range of pace and emotion, and usually carries background music. To train a model for it, the data has to contain samples that are just as unruly.
The specification field that decides the quote
Whether background music is kept or removed directly affects what this data can be used for.
The language side: what Kurdish demands
The two main branches of Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji) have low mutual intelligibility, close to two separate languages, and they use different scripts. Public resources are so thin that even TTS datasets are rare — a textbook scarce language.
What we can put in this delivery
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Read and conversational speech
Scripted recording for TTS, and unscripted conversation for recognition. Specified separately because they need different speaker pools.
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Transcription to your convention
Orthographic or phonetic, with the guideline written before production and shared with you for review.
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Speaker metadata
Age band, gender, region and dialect background per file, so you can slice the dataset rather than take it whole.
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Consent documentation
Signed speaker consent covering the intended use, plus collection methodology and the annotation guideline.
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Pilot batch
A small batch first, which you can reject. Misalignments surface after a few hours rather than at delivery.
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Delivery in your format
Audio format, sampling rate, segmentation length and metadata schema set to your pipeline's requirements.
What arrives in a delivery
| Component | What it is |
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| Audio files | Format, sampling rate and segmentation length set to your pipeline. Named to a convention you specify. |
| Transcription | Orthographic or phonetic, produced under a guideline you review before production starts. |
| Speaker metadata | Age band, gender, region and dialect background per file, plus a speaker identifier so the dataset can be sliced. |
| Recording conditions | Environment, device and, where relevant, measured signal-to-noise ratio per file. |
| Annotation guideline | The document the annotators worked from, so you can reproduce the conventions on your own data. |
| Consent records | Signed speaker consent covering your intended use, with the transfer mechanism addressed where required. |
| Collection methodology | How speakers were recruited, screened and scheduled — the part that tells you how biased the pool is. |
| Quality report | Pilot outcome, re-work log, and the annotator agreement figures where the task supports measuring them. |
Questions we get about Kurdish Short Video Speech
How many distinct speakers can you provide for Kurdish Short Video Speech?
It depends on the specification and the timeline, and we will give a real number rather than a target. For this pairing, speaker recruitment is usually the step that sets the schedule. Each clip carries a branch tag and the creator's country of residence, and the delivery states whether background music was removed or retained, since that changes what the data can train.
Can you annotate to our own guideline instead of the default?
Yes, and for this pairing we would recommend it. Kurdish short-video speech arrives fast and colloquial, in one branch or the other, with background music underneath and the creator's second language mixed in mid-clip. That is exactly the kind of decision a default guideline leaves open, and it is where annotators diverge. Send us your guideline, or we will draft one and you can review it before production starts.
Do you offer a sample before we commit to a full run?
Yes. Select a free sample in the request form and describe what you need. A pilot batch is the cheapest way to establish whether the quality bar is reachable for Kurdish Short Video Speech before committing to the full volume.
Is the data licensed or owned outright?
Licensing terms are set per project, so tell us how the model will be used and whether it will be distributed. Consent documentation travels with the data either way, and we do not handle medical or clinical data or recorded telephone calls.
Other datasets in Kurdish
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Kurdish Call Center Speech
Recorded customer-service calls, real or simulated, capturing both the agent and the caller side, used for call center QC, intent recognition, and dialogue systems.
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Kurdish Conversational Speech
Speech from natural conversation between two or more people, on open or semi-structured topics, used for conversational AI, voice assistants, and small talk models.
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Kurdish Singing Voice
Vocal recordings with melody, in both a cappella and accompanied form, used for singing voice synthesis, music information retrieval, and lyric alignment.
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Kurdish Speech Commands
Targeted recordings of short command words or phrases, usually with many speakers reading each entry several times over, used for wake words and on-device command recognition.
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Kurdish Read Speech
Recordings of speakers reading specified text, with clear pronunciation and known text, the base material for TTS and ASR.
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Kurdish Podcast Speech
Long-form podcast and interview audio, either solo monologue or two-person conversation, used for long-form speech recognition and speaker modeling.
Short Video Speech in other languages
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Hindi Short Video Speech
South Asia
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Arabic (MSA) Short Video Speech
Middle East & North Africa
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Indonesian Short Video Speech
Southeast Asia
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Thai Short Video Speech
Southeast Asia
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Turkish Short Video Speech
Middle East & Europe
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Vietnamese Short Video Speech
Southeast Asia
Request Kurdish Short Video Speech
Tell us the language, the hours, and what the data needs to look like. You will get a real number and a real timeline — not a range. If we cannot source it well, we will tell you that instead.
- Pilot batch before the full run, so problems surface early.
- Consent documentation delivered with the data.
- No medical or clinical data. No recorded telephone calls.