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# About This Repository

`Pukhto_Pashto` is a community-led open project focused on making Pashto a first-class language in speech and language AI.

## Mission

- Build open Pashto datasets for ASR, TTS, and NLP.
- Publish reproducible baseline models and evaluation workflows.
- Keep progress transparent, contributor-friendly, and public-benefit oriented.

## What Is In This Repository

- `data/`: dataset workflows, metadata, and normalization seeds.
- `asr/`: ASR baselines and experiment notes.
- `tts/`: TTS baselines and quality tracking.
- `benchmarks/`: benchmark schema, result format, and metric guidance.
- `experiments/`: reproducible run cards and experiment records.
- `docs/`: policies, roadmap, release process, and operating guides.
- `resources/`: verified external Pashto datasets, models, tools, benchmarks, and papers.

## Search Resources

- Search UI: [Pashto Resource Search](search/)
- Resource index docs: [resource_catalog.md](resource_catalog.md)
- Machine-readable catalog: [../resources/catalog/resources.json](../resources/catalog/resources.json)

## Project References

- Repository: [Musawer1214/Pukhto_Pashto](https://github.com/Musawer1214/Pukhto_Pashto)
- Hugging Face: [Musawer14/Pukhto_Pashto](https://huggingface.co/Musawer14/Pukhto_Pashto)
- Purpose: [PROJECT_PURPOSE.md](../PROJECT_PURPOSE.md)
- Roadmap: [ROADMAP.md](../ROADMAP.md)
- Contributing: [CONTRIBUTING.md](../CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Contributing

You can help by improving documentation, validating normalization rows, sharing verified resources, or contributing data and evaluation workflows.

For contributor workflow and standards, start at:
- [docs/README.md](README.md)
- [community/COMMUNICATION.md](../community/COMMUNICATION.md)

## License

This project is released under Apache 2.0. See [LICENSE](../LICENSE).