---
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](https://github.com/Musawer1214/Pukhto_Pashto)
- Hugging Face: [https://huggingface.co/Musawer14/Pukhto_Pashto](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.

## 📚 Featured External Dataset
- Common Voice Scripted Speech 24.0 - Pashto
- Source:
  [https://datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cmj8u3pnb00llnxxbfvxo3b14](https://datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cmj8u3pnb00llnxxbfvxo3b14)
- Project integration guide: [docs/common_voice_pashto_24.md](docs/common_voice_pashto_24.md)

## 🙌 Contribute Through Mozilla Common Voice
- Speak: [https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/speak](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/speak)
- Write: [https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/write](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/write)
- Listen: [https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/listen](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/listen)
- Review: [https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/review](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ps/review)

## 🌐 Community Resource Profiles
- Hugging Face (external Pashto resource profile): [https://huggingface.co/ihanif](https://huggingface.co/ihanif)
- Use this profile as a reference point for Pashto ASR/TTS datasets, models, and
  community experiments.

## 🚀 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