Kannada Time Aligned Speech Corpus

Language

Kannada is a major Dravidian language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Karnataka and by Kannada-speaking communities in other parts of India and abroad. It has a long literary history, a rich written tradition, and its own script. Kannada is widely used in education, media, administration, literature, and everyday communication, making it one of the most important languages of South India.

Data Structure

The dataset is organized into two main folders:

• Audio/ — contains the Kannada speech recordings
• Transcription/ — contains the corresponding text transcriptions for each audio file

Each transcription file corresponds to an audio file, making the dataset easy to use for speech processing, alignment, and transcription-based tasks.

Speaker Information

The dataset includes recordings from two native Kannada speakers:

• Speaker 1: Male, 32 years old
• Speaker 2: Female, 39 years old

This provides basic speaker diversity in terms of gender and age within the corpus.

Recommended Processing

• Verify audio quality
• Normalize transcription text
• Match audio and transcription filenames
• Check alignment consistency
• Remove noisy or corrupted files
• Standardize formats and metadata

Sample

1
00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,956
ನಾನು ಇಂದು ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಲ್ಲ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ

2
00:00:02,980 --> 00:00:04,783
ಮಹತ್ವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ

3
00:00:04,807 --> 00:00:06,031
ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಹೊರಟಿದ್ದೇನೆ.