Middle East & North Africa · Arabic / Latin
Kurdish Elderly Voice Dataset
Kurdish Elderly Voice delivered to your specification. A catalog entry, not a stock listing. This page covers what is specifically hard about this pairing, and which fields your specification needs to pin down.
Why Elderly Voice in Kurdish is its own problem
Older Kurdish speakers kept the language alive through the decades when its public use was restricted, so their speech carries vocabulary younger speakers no longer have, which is exactly the value. Recruitment is the constraint: the accessible pool sits largely in the Kurdistan Region and in the European diaspora, and many elderly speakers, particularly women from rural backgrounds, never went to school, so they cannot do reading tasks and are not literate in either Kurdish alphabet. Spontaneous speech is the only workable collection route, and it has to be planned as such from the start.
The field to pin down first: Age bands are set in advance, and each speaker is screened for literacy in the target script; if reading tasks are impossible, the plan switches to prompted spontaneous speech rather than dropping the speaker.
At a glance
| Language | Kurdish |
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| Primary region | Middle East & North Africa |
| Writing system | Arabic / Latin |
| Category | Elderly Voice |
| Specification field to settle first | Age bands are set in advance, and each speaker is screened for literacy in the target script; if reading tasks are impossible, the plan switches to prompted spontaneous speech rather than dropping the speaker. |
| Delivery | Sourced to order, pilot batch before the full run |
What Elderly Voice data is
Speech data from elderly speakers, usually stratified by age band and health status, used for voice products built for older users.
What buyers get wrong about it
Speaking rate, volume, and articulation vary enormously across elderly speakers, and recruiting them is hard. Too small a sample and the model simply skews toward younger users.
The specification field that decides the quote
Age stratification and whether speakers with speech disorders are included must be stated up front.
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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Collection to your specification
Scripted or unscripted, in the language, domain and conditions your task needs. Specified separately where the variants need different contributor pools.
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Labels to your convention
Orthographic, phonetic or categorical, with the guideline written before production and shared with you for review.
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Contributor metadata
The attributes that let you slice the set rather than take it whole. The ones your task turns on, not a fixed list.
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Consent documentation
Signed contributor 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
File format, structure, segmentation and metadata schema set to your pipeline's requirements.
What arrives in a delivery
| Component | What it is |
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| The data files | Format, structure and segmentation set to your pipeline. Named to a convention you specify. |
| Labels or transcription | Orthographic, phonetic or categorical, produced under a guideline you review before production starts. |
| Contributor metadata | The attributes that let you slice the set: age band, gender, region, dialect background, or whatever your task turns on. |
| Collection conditions | Environment, device and, where it can be measured, signal quality: recorded per file. |
| Annotation guideline | The document the annotators worked from, so you can reproduce the conventions on your own data. |
| Consent records | Signed contributor consent covering your intended use, plus cross-border transfer terms where they apply. |
| Collection methodology | How contributors 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 Elderly Voice Dataset
How many distinct speakers can you provide for Kurdish Elderly Voice Dataset?
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. Age bands are set in advance, and each speaker is screened for literacy in the target script; if reading tasks are impossible, the plan switches to prompted spontaneous speech rather than dropping the speaker.
Can you annotate to our own guideline instead of the default?
Yes, and for this pairing we would recommend it. Older Kurdish speakers kept the language alive through the decades when its public use was restricted, so their speech carries vocabulary younger speakers no longer have, which is exactly the value. 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 Elderly Voice Dataset 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 Speech Commands
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.
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Kurdish Read Speech
Recordings of speakers reading specified text, with clear pronunciation and known text, the base material for TTS and ASR.
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Kurdish Podcast Speech
Long-form podcast and interview audio, either solo monologue or two-person conversation, used for long-form speech recognition and speaker modeling.
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Kurdish Multilingual Speech
Speech data covering multiple languages within one project, used for multilingual ASR, cross-lingual transfer, and language identification.
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Kurdish 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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Kurdish Code-Switching Speech
Speech that mixes two or more languages inside a single utterance (Hinglish, Spanglish, Taglish), used for recognition in real spoken settings.
Elderly Voice in other languages
Request Kurdish Elderly Voice Dataset
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.
- You send the spec Language, hours, recording conditions, and the deadline.
- We reply within two business days A real number and a real timeline, not a range.
- You approve a pilot batch A small run first, so problems surface before the full order.
- Full run, then delivery with documents Audio, transcripts, and the consent record for every speaker.