Dataset Description 

64:44:02 Hours | 7.1 GB | 233 Speakers| 26,223 Audio Segments | 16 kHz | 16 bit wav. 

Gujarati is one of the major literary languages of India and it is the official language of Gujarat state and union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. For the convenience LDC-IL considered Gujarati with four dialects namely South Gujarat, Central Gujarat, North Gujarat and Saurashtra.

LDC-IL has 64:44:02 hours Gujarati raw speech data as Mono recording. The LDC-IL Gujarati Raw Speech data set consists of different types of datasets that are made up of word lists, sentences, texts and date formats. Approximately 15 minutes of speech (per speaker) has taken from 124 female and 109 male from Guajarati mother tongue 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 233 (124 Female and 109 Male)

A detailed explanation of the Gujarati Raw Speech Corpus (Mono Recordings) will be available in the Gujarati Raw Speech (Mono Recordings) Documentation. 

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

·         Ramamoorthy L., Narayan Kumar Choudhary, Mona Parakh, Rejitha KS, Rajesha N., Manasa, G.2021. Gujarati Raw Speech Corpus(Mono Recordings).  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.