164 hours; 43670 segments; 458 speakers 

Malayalam is the official language of Kerala and Laccadive Islands. It belongs to the Dravidian language family.  According to the formation of Kerala and the language of Travancore, Cochin and Malabar regions are influenced by different internal and external factors so LDC-IL considered Malayalam has three specifically different varieties, thus collected speech data from Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode.

LDC-IL has 164 hours Malayalam speech data. The LDC-IL Malayalam Speech data set consists of different types of datasets that are made up of word lists, sentences, running texts and date formats.

Approximately 15 minutes speech (per speaker) has taken from 231 female and 227 Male native speakers of different age groups. Each speaker recorded these datasets which are randomly selected from a master dataset.

Corpus details:

• Total 458 speakers (231 Female and 227 Male.)
• 43670 audio segments
  
• 105 gigabytes of .wav  files and Metadata .txt Files
  
• 164:01:02 hours of speech data