Middle East & North Africa · Arabic / Latin
Kurdish Speech Commands Dataset
Kurdish speech commands 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 speech commands in Kurdish is its own problem
A Kurdish command list is not portable. The everyday word for a basic action differs between Kurmanji and Sorani, so a list built in one branch is unusable in the other, and within a single branch the word a speaker reaches for tracks their country — one form where Turkish influence dominates, another where Arabic does. Wake-word work also needs the list written down in a fixed script, and the two branches do not share one. Fixing the branch, the country, and the written form before recording is what keeps the batch usable; adding entries later means a fresh round of speakers.
The field to pin down first: The command list is frozen per branch and per country before recording, with its written form fixed in one script; a list carried over from the other branch cannot be recorded as it stands.
At a glance
| Language | Kurdish |
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| Primary region | Middle East & North Africa |
| Writing system | Arabic / Latin |
| Category | Speech Commands |
| Specification field to settle first | The command list is frozen per branch and per country before recording, with its written form fixed in one script; a list carried over from the other branch cannot be recorded as it stands. |
| Delivery | Sourced to order, pilot batch before the full run |
What speech commands data is
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.
What buyers get wrong about it
What buyers consistently underestimate is the repetition count — a single command entry needs at least a few dozen distinct speakers, each reading it multiple times, to cover pronunciation variation.
The specification field that decides the quote
Once the word list is locked it cannot change; adding words midway means starting a new batch.
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 Speech Commands
How many distinct speakers can you provide for Kurdish Speech Commands?
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. The command list is frozen per branch and per country before recording, with its written form fixed in one script; a list carried over from the other branch cannot be recorded as it stands.
Can you annotate to our own guideline instead of the default?
Yes, and for this pairing we would recommend it. A Kurdish command list is not portable. 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 Speech Commands 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 Audiobook
Continuous long-form narration in audiobook style, steady in intonation and generous in duration, the main source material for high-quality TTS.
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Kurdish Short Video Speech
Speech in the talking-head style of short video — fast, emotionally strong, colloquial — used for short video subtitles and content understanding.
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Kurdish Live Stream Speech
Long-session spoken content from live streams — host monologue and responses to audience interaction — fast-paced and heavily improvised.
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Kurdish Voice Assistant
Command and dialogue data for voice assistants, usually with intent annotation, covering the full chain from wake word to understanding to response.
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Kurdish Elderly Voice
Speech data from elderly speakers, usually stratified by age band and health status, used for voice products built for older users.
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Kurdish Accented English
English speech from non-native speakers or specific regional accents, grouped by accent origin, used to improve accent robustness in ASR.
Speech Commands in other languages
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Kannada Speech Commands
South Asia
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Punjabi Speech Commands
South Asia
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Burmese Speech Commands
Southeast Asia
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Amharic Speech Commands
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ukrainian Speech Commands
Europe
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Swahili Speech Commands
Sub-Saharan Africa
Request Kurdish Speech Commands
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.