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ASR for Extremely Low-Resource Indic Languages

Building Automatic Speech Recognition systems for Konkani, Maithili and Santali — three critically under-represented Indian languages — as part of the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM).

About

There are thousands of languages and dialects in India that are actively spoken. Many regional Indian languages have minimal speech data on the internet, making it difficult to develop accurate AI and voice technologies for them.

Government of India through Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) started an initiative called National Language Translation Mission (NLTM) with a goal of making technology accessible in all Indian languages.

SPIRE Lab's project, ASR for Extremely Low-Resource Indic Languages supports NLTM's objective by gathering data for three low resource languages. This dataset is called as InDRA, an acronym for Indic Dataset for Regional Applications.

Data collection locations across India

Objectives

Our project focuses on building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for three low-resource Indian languages.

  • Obtain speech data and transcription for Maithili, Santali and Konkani
  • Develop ASR models for the three languages
  • Evaluate the ASR models

Funding

  • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India

ML Models and Publications

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Publications and model releases will be listed here as they become available.

Sample Audio Data

Browse transcribed audio clips organised by language. Each card contains an audio player, transcription text, and metadata.

Konkani (कोंकणी)9 samples

आ हांव हैदराबाद{hyderabad} गेला.

म्हाका मेन{main} भायर वचोंक जाय कित्याक म्हजे म्हरे जितले कजन{cousin} आपय आमचे फॅमिलीचे{family} सगळे भायर आसा

आठांक मागीर टायमूत{time} पावना रे मागीर जेयतलो न्हिदतलो.

आज आतां हरशीं ड्राय{dry} डे{day} मरे, फाल्यां इलेक्शन{election} आज लिबरेशन{liberation} डे{day}.

निस्त्यापसत्ये करताना ताका चिकनाचे ते घालताना मसाला घालताना ताका सौकती सौकती कितें म्हण्टात मागेले ते?

ओके{okay} ओके{okay}, ही क्या बोलते ये बाईक{bike} है वो ऑफ{off} रोडींग{road} है.

आनी कीदें आहा मरे व्हडली बाटली गेतीली आमी जीन बीन आसली बरी

हो ते ते मरे महिंद्रा{mahindra} ची ना ना ना महिंद्राचीच{mahindra} ती?

आमचे आसात गो भयण, खूब लोक आसात भयण, जिजू बीन आसात गो.

Data Collection Partners

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Funding Agency

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India

Languages

Konkani • Maithili • Santali