SPRING-INX: A Multilingual Indian Language Speech Corpus by SPRING Lab, IIT Madras
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2023

India is home to a multitude of languages of which 22 languages are recognised by the Indian Constitution as official. Building speech based applications for the Indian population is a difficult problem owing to limited data and the number of languages and accents to accommodate. To encourage the language technology community to build speech based applications in Indian languages, we are open sourcing SPRING-INX data which has about 2000 hours of legally sourced and manually transcribed speech d