Urdu News Broadcast - Jan 2025 Akashvani

About Dataset

This dataset contains Urdu-language audio content from Akashvani, India’s public radio broadcaster, comprising public-interest broadcasts such as news bulletins, government advisories, educational programmes, and awareness content. The dataset is intended to support AI use cases including automatic speech-to-text transcription, summarisation, metadata generation, and improved discoverability and reuse of public broadcast content. It also contributes to building structured language resources for public-information access, archival preservation, and India’s broader digital public knowledge infrastructure.