Meesum Alam
Building the open speech and text data that 70+ languages of Pakistan never had — then publishing it openly so anyone can build on it.
Most South Asian languages don't exist in the data modern AI is built on.
Meesum Alam founded MirasAI to change that — commissioning, curating, and publishing open speech and text datasets for Punjabi, Saraiki, Pashto, Balochi, Hazargi, Khowar, Brahui, and dozens more.
He is a PhD candidate in computational linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington on a Fulbright scholarship, and Regional Researcher for South Asia at Mozilla Data Collective. His largest project — a 39-language Pakistani speech corpus built with 75 language consultants — was published at LREC 2026, the field's leading language-resources venue.
Four concurrent mandates, one problem.
Principal Investigator — Common Voice Pakistan
Led a nationwide speech corpus effort across 39 languages, now peer-reviewed and published at LREC 2026.
Voice AI Dataset Initiative
Directed 500-hr Urdu TTS, 200-hr Saraiki TTS, 100-hr Sindhi multimodal, and 60-hr five-language datasets.
Regional Researcher, South Asia
Sources, quality-controls, and publishes open datasets spanning 60+ languages on the leading open-data platform.
Computational Linguistics
Researching Saraiki morphology and grammar while building the computational tools to document it.
Common Voice for Pakistan: An Open Speech Corpus for 39 Low-Resource Languages
A one-year, Mozilla-funded effort to build a community-driven speech corpus spanning Pakistan's Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dardic, Turkic, and isolate language families — from Balochistan and Sindh up through Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
Alam, M. & Tyers, F. M. (2026). Common Voice for Pakistan: Developing an Open Speech Corpus for Low-Resource Pakistani Languages.
Proceedings of the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), pp. 3355–3359. ELRA. · Released CC0.
Methods & tooling
Working languages
Work together
Commissioned datasets, research collaboration, and language-technology consulting across South Asia.