South Asia · Gurmukhi / Shahmukhi
Punjabi Speech Commands Dataset
Punjabi 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 Punjabi is its own problem
A Punjabi command word list runs into a problem a single-side project never sees: the same command has an everyday form on each side of the border, and the two draw on different vocabulary layers — Indian Punjab reaches for Sanskrit- and English-derived words, Pakistani Punjab for Persian and Arabic ones. Build the list from one side and it reads as stiff or foreign to users on the other. On top of that, some of the shortest commands are distinguished only by tone, and tone is not written, so the list as text is underspecified for exactly the entries that matter most.
The field to pin down first: Declare the baseline side on the word list itself, carry a tone column for every entry (tone is unwritten in both scripts), and fix the speaker count and repetition targets before recording starts.
At a glance
| Language | Punjabi |
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| Primary region | South Asia |
| Writing system | Gurmukhi / Shahmukhi |
| Category | Speech Commands |
| Specification field to settle first | Declare the baseline side on the word list itself, carry a tone column for every entry (tone is unwritten in both scripts), and fix the speaker count and repetition targets before recording starts. |
| 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 Punjabi demands
Punjabi is the classic case of one spoken language with two scripts: Gurmukhi on the Indian side and Shahmukhi (a Perso-Arabic system) on the Pakistani side. The same passage written on either side cannot be cross-searched against the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 Punjabi Speech Commands
How many distinct speakers can you provide for Punjabi 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. Declare the baseline side on the word list itself, carry a tone column for every entry (tone is unwritten in both scripts), and fix the speaker count and repetition targets before recording starts.
Can you annotate to our own guideline instead of the default?
Yes, and for this pairing we would recommend it. A Punjabi command word list runs into a problem a single-side project never sees: the same command has an everyday form on each side of the border, and the two draw on different vocabulary layers — Indian Punjab reaches for Sanskrit- and English-derived words, Pakistani Punjab for Persian and Arabic ones. 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi
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Punjabi Podcast Speech
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Punjabi Multilingual Speech
Speech data covering multiple languages within one project, used for multilingual ASR, cross-lingual transfer, and language identification.
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Punjabi Noisy Speech
Speech collected under background noise — street, in-car, restaurant, office and other real environments — used for noise-robust models and speech enhancement.
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Punjabi Code-Switching Speech
Speech that mixes two or more languages inside a single utterance — Hinglish, Spanglish, Taglish — used for recognition in real spoken settings.
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Punjabi Children Speech
Speech data from child speakers, grouped by age band, used for children's speech recognition and children's education products.
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Punjabi Audiobook
Continuous long-form narration in audiobook style, steady in intonation and generous in duration, the main source material for high-quality TTS.
Speech Commands in other languages
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Indonesian Speech Commands
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Thai Speech Commands
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Turkish Speech Commands
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Vietnamese Speech Commands
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Filipino Speech Commands
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Persian Speech Commands
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Request Punjabi 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.