Shrutilipi

by AI4Bharat (IIT Madras)

6457h Indic-language ASR corpus from All India Radio news broadcasts.

TL;DR

6457h Indic-language ASR corpus from All India Radio news broadcasts.

Best for indic-language ASR pretraining from broadcast news with naturally-aligned transcripts. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
HuggingFace

What it is

Shrutilipi is 6457 hours of All India Radio news broadcasts across 12 Indian languages, paired with the official AIR transcripts. License: CC BY 4.0.

Best for: Indic-language ASR pretraining from broadcast news with naturally-aligned transcripts.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 · AIR-sourced · news-domain bias. Cite: Bhogale et al., 2023.

Install / use

from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('ai4bharat/Shrutilipi')

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported12
HIPAA eligibleNo

Shrutilipi vs Whipscribe

FeatureShrutilipiWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages1299
PlatformsHuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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