Hindi Sentence Aligned Speech Corpus

Dataset Description:

 72:34:52 hours | 45.9 GB | 42,275 Audio Segments | 473 speakers

The annotated speech corpus gives wide range of linguistic information especially useful to analyse phonetics. The LDC-IL Hindi Sentence Aligned Speech dataset comprises audio files in wav format, accompanied by a corresponding textual layer containing phonetically normalized and orthographically normalized annotations in Devanagari script. This dataset spans a duration of 72:34:52 (hh:mm:ss), consisting of read speech with continuous text, representative sentences, and date formats. The data is derived from 225 female and 248 male native Hindi speakers, encompassing diverse age groups and regions. A comprehensive explanation of dataset can be found in the Hindi Sentence Aligned Speech Documentation.

For any research-based citations, please use the following citations:

1. Satyaendra Kumar Awasthi, Ankita Tiwari, Rajesha N., Manasa G., Srikanth D., Stephen Fernandes, Nithin S., Narayan Kumar Choudhary, Shailendra Mohan. 2023. Hindi Sentence Aligned Speech Corpus Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. 978-81-19411-28-3.

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