Re: AUDITORY Digest - 29 May 2006 to 30 May 2006 (#2006-122):Indian Languages

Dear Monita and List,

1) You can get hindi corpus (words, sentences ) http://www.ncb.ernet.in/matrubhasha/speechcorpus.shtml

Its available I think in CDs and it costs 100 INR but i am not sure.

2) You can contact Prof. Hema A Murthy of IIT Chennai. She works in speech processing, synthesis and recognition. Her e-mail is hema@ tenet.res.in I know she has a huge recorded corpus of Tamil but you need to contact personally.

3) Kannada corpus is available from All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore. I think its 2000 INR but I am not sure. You can contact Prof Savitri, who works in Speech science lab.

4) Another source is central Institute for Indian languages. There are 6-7 these institutes in India each dealing with specific Indian languages.

5) Resource Center for Indian Language Technology Solutions Indian Institute of Technology Bombay also may be of some help.

http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/

Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:45:39 -0400
From: Monita Chatterjee <mchatterjee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: speech materials in Indian languages

Dear List,

I am interested in obtaining recorded speech materials in various
Indian languages [vowels, consonants, sentences, anything]. I know there
are some databases for Hindi, Tamil, etc. but I don't know where to
look! ..I'd appreciate a few pointers to help me get started.

Thanks,

Monita

M Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Asst Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences
0100 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405 7716

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