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Urdu (اردو) speech data for AI
How much open Urdu speech data exists, where the gaps are, and how to get consented Urdu data collected.
That is enough to start experiments, but far short of production speech recognition, which typically uses thousands of hours. Conversational, accent-balanced and domain-specific Urdu audio remains scarce.
Source: Mozilla Common Voice language statistics, fetched 2026-11-05. Figures cover the open Common Voice corpus only.
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We recruit native Urdu speakers and collect to your spec: read prompts or natural two-person conversation, transcripts in the native script, speaker age, gender and region labels, noise and synthetic-voice checks, and a consent record for every file. Shared or exclusive licence.
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Questions
Where can I get Urdu speech data for AI training?
Norynta collects Urdu speech data to order from consenting native speakers: read prompts, natural conversations, transcripts and private evaluation sets, with a consent and origin record for every file. Request it at collect.norynta.com/buy. For open data, Mozilla Common Voice has 77 validated hours of Urdu (as of 2026-11-05).
How much open Urdu speech data is available?
As of 2026-11-05, Mozilla Common Voice lists 77 validated hours and 303 recorded hours of Urdu from 509 speakers, ranking 45 of 445 languages by validated hours.
Can I get paid to record Urdu?
Yes. Native Urdu speakers can join Norynta's contributor waitlist at collect.norynta.com/join. We email paid recording and writing projects in Urdu when they open, and pay once the work is accepted.
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