UrduSpeech: A 156-Hour Urdu Speech Corpus with 12-Dimension Paralinguistic Annotations

Attia Nafees ul Haq, Zeyu Zhu, Jingbin Hu +2

Despite 230 million speakers, Urdu remains critically under-resourced in speech technology. We introduce UrduSpeech: a large high-fidelity Urdu corpus comprising 156 hours of audio…