IIIT-Hyderabad Indic Speech
IIIT-Hyderabad speech lab — academic Indian-language ASR datasets and checkpoints.
IIIT-Hyderabad speech lab — academic Indian-language ASR datasets and checkpoints.
Best for researchers training Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and other Indic ASR models from academic corpora. Pricing: free.
What it is
IIIT-Hyderabad runs one of India's most active speech-processing research labs and has released datasets and ASR baselines for many Indian languages. The lab is also a contributor to Bhashini. For research teams building Indic ASR, IIIT-H's corpora and code are a foundational reference alongside AI4Bharat's IndicConformer. Best fit when the buyer is researchers training telugu, tamil, hindi, and other indic asr models from academic corpora. The honest caveat: academic data and code; commercial use depends on each dataset's specific license. As with any open-weights release, the integrator owns hosting, scaling, and SLA — but the licensing cost is zero and the model can be fine-tuned on in-house audio.
Watch out for: Academic data and code; commercial use depends on each dataset's specific license.
Install / use
speech.iiit.ac.in — dataset downloads and model cardsFeatures
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
IIIT-Hyderabad Indic Speech vs Whipscribe
| Feature | IIIT-Hyderabad Indic Speech | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Open source | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | free | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | No | Yes |
| Word timestamps | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Linux | Web, API, MCP |
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