South Asia · Sinhala
Sinhala Children Speech Dataset
Sinhala children 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 children speech in Sinhala is its own problem
Sinhala children in urban settings encounter English words early, and English loanwords already show up in what preschoolers say. That makes the language composition of children's speech more mixed than adult data, and it needs dedicated language annotation.
The field to pin down first: Annotate where English loanwords appear, and describe each child's level of exposure to English.
At a glance
| Language | Sinhala |
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| Primary region | South Asia |
| Writing system | Sinhala |
| Category | Children Speech |
| Specification field to settle first | Annotate where English loanwords appear, and describe each child's level of exposure to English. |
| Delivery | Sourced to order, pilot batch before the full run |
What children speech data is
Speech data from child speakers, grouped by age band, used for children's speech recognition and children's education products.
What buyers get wrong about it
Children's speech is the most compliance-sensitive category — a guardian must sign consent, and the collection process has to survive review. This is a hard requirement and cannot be skipped.
The specification field that decides the quote
Age banding (such as 3–5 / 6–8 / 9–12 years) and guardian consent documents must be included with every delivery.
The language side: what Sinhala demands
Everyday Sinhala conversation is heavily embedded with English words, especially in the Colombo urban belt. Treating this mixed speech as pure Sinhala strips out high-frequency loanwords as if they were errors.
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 Sinhala Children Speech
How many distinct speakers can you provide for Sinhala Children 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. Annotate where English loanwords appear, and describe each child's level of exposure to English.
Can you annotate to our own guideline instead of the default?
Yes, and for this pairing we would recommend it. Sinhala children in urban settings encounter English words early, and English loanwords already show up in what preschoolers say. 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 Sinhala Children 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 Sinhala
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Sinhala 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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Sinhala 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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Sinhala 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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Sinhala Accented English
English speech from non-native speakers or specific regional accents, grouped by accent origin, used to improve accent robustness in ASR.
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Sinhala Speech Translation
Parallel data pairing source-language audio with target-language translation, used for speech-to-text and speech-to-speech translation models.
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Sinhala In-the-Wild Speech
Speech collected under fully natural conditions — no studio, no topic constraints — as close to real usage as collection gets.
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Arabic (MSA) Children Speech
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Indonesian Children Speech
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Request Sinhala Children 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.