Bengali is the official language of West Bengal and Tripura. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family.

LDC-IL Bengali Speech Data set consists of different types of word list along with sentence list, running text and date format. Approximately 15 minutes of speech (per speaker) has been taken from 223 female and 227 male native speakers with different age groups. Each speaker recorded these datasets which are randomly selected from a master dataset. Along with this random set, some full sets are there in the database where the speaker has uttered some full set of words.

Corpus details:

•          Total number of speakers: 450 random set & 28 full set
•          Total audio segments: 73399 audio segments
•          Total duration: 128:40:17 hours
•          Total volume: 81.7 gigabytes of WAV files and Metadata Txt Files
•          Age group: 16 to 20, 21 to 50, 51 above
•          Recording mode: .WAV – 16bit
•          Sampling frequency: 48.0 Kilohertz