The data set comprises of Hindi read and conversational speech data along with the corresponding transcriptions. This speech data was collected by Speech Lab IITM and several startups. The text data was crawled from newspapers, and then volunteers were asked to read them. It covers genres like politics, sports, entertainment, etc.  Lexicon, baseline models, results and recipes to replicate the baseline experiments are also made available The following data sets are released for this challenge:

Train set - 178.4 hours 

Development set - 4.8 hours   

Evaluation set - 4.9  hours