README.md

---
language:
- hi
license: mit
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
- text-to-speech
- automatic-speech-recognition
pretty_name: Rajasthani Hindi Speech Dataset
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: sentence
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 7425995581.812981
    num_examples: 422603
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 74991388.79801954
    num_examples: 4269
  download_size: 7504372330
  dataset_size: 7500986970.611
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
tags:
- webdataset
---
# Rajasthani Hindi Speech Dataset

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This dataset consists of audio recordings of participants reading out stories in Rajasthani Hindi, one sentence at a time. They had 98 participants from Soda, Rajasthan. Each participant read 30 stories. In total, we have 426872 recordings in this dataset. They had roughly 58 male participants and 40 female participants.

> **Point to Note:**
> While random sampling suggests that most users have to their best effort tried to accurately read out the sentences, we have not performed any quality analysis on the data. There could be errors in some of the recordings.

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### Dataset Sources

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- **Link:** [Download](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=105385)
- **Curated By:** [Project Karya](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-karya/overview/)

## Dataset Structure

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Contains two headers: audio and sentence containing the Audio file and sentence respectively.