Malayalam Raw Speech Corpus

164:01:02 Hours | 105 GB | 458Speakers| 43670 Audio Segments |48 kHz | 16 bit wav.

Malayalam is the official language of Kerala and Laccadive Islands. It belongs to the Dravidian language family.  According to the formation of Kerala and the language of Travancore, Cochin, and Malabar regions are influenced by different internal and external factors so LDC-IL considered Malayalam has three specifically different varieties, thus collected speech data from Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, and Kozhikode.

LDC-IL has 164 hours Malayalam speech data. The LDC-IL Malayalam Speech data set consists of different types of datasets that are made up of word lists, sentences, running texts and date formats. Approximately 15 minutes of speech (per speaker) has taken from 231 female and 227 Male native speakers of different age groups. Each speaker recorded these datasets which are randomly selected from a master dataset.

The available Speech Corpus details: 

Total Speakers 458(231 Female and 227 Male)

A detailed explanation of the Malayalam Speech Corpus will be available in the Malayalam Speech Data Documentation.

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

• Ramamoorthy, L., Narayan Choudhary, Saritha S.L., Rejitha K.S., Sajila S. & Midhun P. G. 2019. Malayalam Raw Speech Corpus. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
• Choudhary, Narayan, 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.