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139:11:41 Hours | 86 GB speech data | 452 Speakers | 60,287 Audio segments | 48 kHz | 16 bit wav. Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world.  It is one of the prominent language among the Dravidian language family. Tamil is widely spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, Union Territory of Pondicherry, Sri Lanka, in East-Asian countries like Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Indio china, Fiji, in South-Africa, British Guinea and in islands like Mauritius and Madagascar etc. The language is an official language in Tamil Nadu and some of the foreign countries such as Sri Lanka and Singapore. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry. Tamil has its own font. The language is highly agglutinative in nature. Tamil has Phonological simplicity, Morphological parity and primitiveness. There is separability and significance of all affixes in Tamil language. There is an absence nominative case termination and arbitrary words in Tamil language. The LDC-IL speech data is collected from the regions of Kongu, Kumari, Madurai, Nellai, Salem and Thanjai, from both the genders and different age groups. Each speaker recorded these datasets which are randomly selected from a master dataset.  The available Speech Corpus details:Total Speakers 452 (214 Female and 219 Male) Domains Audio Segments Each Domain Duration Contemporary Text (News) 433 57:53:48 Creative Text 429 14:21:31 Sentence 10,764 14:51:03 Date Format 842 01:20:17 Command and Control Words 12,882 12:57:06 Person Name 8,755 03:57:29 Place Name 4,002 10:34:38 Most Frequent Word - Part 12,813 11:14:05 Most Frequent Word - Full Set 2,000 02:26:05 Phonetically Balanced 3,860 04:55:10 Form and Function - Word 3,507 04:40:29 A  detailed explanation of the Nepali Speech Corpus will be available in the Nepali Speech Data Documentation. For any research-based citations, please use the following citations:Ramamoorthy, L., Narayan Choudhary, Thennarasu S, Prem Kumar L R, Amudha R, Prabagaran R, Srikanth D. 2021.  Tamil Raw Speech Corpus.  Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.Narayan Choudhary,  Rajesha N., Manasa G. & L. Ramamoorthy. 2019. “LDC-IL Raw Speech Corpora: An Overview”  in Linguistic Resources for AI/NLP in Indian Languages. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.  pp. 160-174...

Dataset Description: 74:57:59 hours | 46.4 GB | 48,572 Audio Segments | 433 speakersThe annotated speech corpus gives wide range of linguistic information especially useful to analyse phonetics. The LDC-IL Tamil Sentence Aligned Speech dataset comprises audio files in wav format, accompanied by a corresponding textual layer containing phonetically normalized and orthographically normalized annotations in Tamil script. This dataset spans a duration of 74:57:59 (hh:mm:ss), consisting of read speech with continuous text, representative sentences, and date formats. The data is derived from 214 female and 219 male native Tamil speakers, encompassing diverse age groups and regions. A comprehensive explanation of the dataset can be found in the Tamil Sentence Aligned Speech Documentation.For any research-based citations, please use the following citations:1. Amudha R., Kamaraj S., Rajesha N., Manasa G., Srikanth D., Stephen Fernandes,Nithin S., Narayan Kumar Choudhary, Shailendra Mohan. 2023 Tamil Sentence Aligned Speech Corpus Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. 978-81-19411-26-9.2. Rejitha K. S. and Narayan Kumar Choudhary. (ed.). 2023. Compendium of LDC-IL Sentence Aligned Speech Corpus. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. ISBN: 978-81-19411-34-4.3.  Choudhary, N. 2021. LDC-IL: The Indian Repository of Resources for Language Technology. Language Resources & Evaluation. Springer, Vol. 55, Issue 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09523-3..

1,09,31,902 Words | 1,963 Titles | XML format |  6 text domainsTamil is one of the longest-surviving Classical Languages in the world. It is a Dravidian Language Family. Tamil Text Corpus encoded in a machine-readable form and stored in a standard format. The major encoding being used is Unicode and stored in XML format. The data is embedded with metadata information. The corpus has been created from the contemporary text in typed and crawled methods. Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world. It is a Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, in East-Asian countries like Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Indio china, Fiji, in South-Africa and British Guinea and in islands like Mauritius and Madagascar etc. The language is an official language in Tamil Nadu and some of the foreign countries such as Sri Lanka and Singapore. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry. Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) Tamil Text Corpus developed according to various factors such as quality of the text, representativeness, retrievable format,  size of corpus, authenticity, etc. For collecting text corpus LDC-IL adopts a standard category list of various domains and a prior set of criteria. The corpus of Tamil text can be broadly classified as literary and non- literary texts. A huge amount of literary texts are available in Tamil but scientific texts are less, thus LDC-IL attempts to develop balanced text corpora of Tamil. Data has been collected from books, Magazines, and Newspapers and it is verified to true to the original texts then warehoused.The available Text Corpus details are as follows: Domains Words Percentage of Total Corpus Aesthetics  55,95,316 51.18 % Commerce 83,148 00.76 % Mass Media 21,00,226 19.21 % Official Document 12,768 0.12 % Science and Technology 88,65,532 8.11 % Social Sciences 22,53,912 20.62 % A  detailed explanation of the Tamil Raw Text Corpus will be available in the Tamil Text Corpus Documentation.For any research-based citations, please use the following citations: Ramamoorthy, L., Narayan Choudhary, G. Palanirajan, S. Thennarasu, Prem Kumar L. R, Amudha R., Prabagaran R., Vijayan N. & M. Ramesh Kumar. 2019. A Gold Standard Tamil Raw Text Corpus.  Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.Choudhary, Narayan & L. Ramamoorthy. 2019. "LDC-IL Raw Text Corpora: An Overview"  in  Linguistic Resources for AI/NLP in Indian Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. pp. 1-10...