Punjabi Raw Speech Corpus

101:09:28 Hours | 65.5 GB | 467 Speakers | 76,230  Audio Segments | 48 kHz | 16 bit wav. 

Punjabi is one of the Indo-Aryan Language. Punjabi is a tonal language it has three tones, high-falling, low-rising, and level (neutral). As we know Punjabi is not spoken only in India it is also a language of Pakistan called Shahmukhi Punjabi. Here we are talking about only Indian Gurmukhi Punjabi. The Punjabi language has four different dialects, spoken in the different sub-regions of Punjab. The LDC-IL Punjabi Speech data set consists of different types of datasets that are made up of word lists, sentences, running texts and date formats. Each speaker recorded these datasets which are randomly selected from a master dataset. LDC-IL collected speech data from Malwa, Doab and Puadh regions.

The available Speech Corpus details:

Total Speakers 467(234  Female and 233 Male)

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

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

• Ramamoorthy, L., Narayan Choudhary, Poonam Dhillon & Sarbjeet Kaur. 2019. Punjabi 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.