---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- ps
tags:
- pashto
- asr
- tts
- nlp
---

# 🌍 Pukhto/Pashto Open Language Project

Community-led open-source project to make Pashto a first-class language in AI speech and language tooling.

## 🔗 Project Links
- GitHub: `https://github.com/Musawer1214/Pukhto_Pashto`
- Hugging Face: `https://huggingface.co/Musawer14/Pukhto_Pashto`

## 🎯 Core Goal
- Build open datasets, benchmarks, and models for Pashto ASR, TTS, and NLP.
- Keep work reproducible, transparent, and contribution-friendly.
- Focus on public good and broad accessibility.

## 🚀 Start Here
- 📘 Purpose: `PROJECT_PURPOSE.md`
- 🤝 Contributing: `CONTRIBUTING.md`
- 🗺️ Roadmap: `ROADMAP.md`
- 🏛️ Governance: `GOVERNANCE.md`
- 💬 Community coordination: `community/COMMUNICATION.md`

## 🧩 Initial Workstreams
- `data/` Pashto data collection, cleaning, metadata
- `asr/` speech-to-text baselines and experiments
- `tts/` text-to-speech baselines and experiments
- `benchmarks/` fixed test sets and evaluation scripts
- `apps/desktop/` app integration references