| Summary: | This file contains documentation for ARL Urdu Speech Database, Training Data, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2007S03 and isbn 1-58563-421-3.
The recordings in this release were collected by Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia in 2006. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) provided this corpus to the LDC for distribution.
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken throughout South Asia that developed under the Mughal Empire and Delhi Sultinate between 1200 AD and 1800 AD. It has Persian, Turkish and Arabic influences, but in fact is a dialect of Hindustani. The word "Urdu" refers to the standardized register of Hindustani, but there are many non-standard idiolects as well. Urdu is the twentieth most spoken language in the world. It is the native language of over 60 million people, it is the offical language of Pakistan, and it is one of India's national languages. Urdu is also spoken in Afghanistan.
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