AI4Bharat IndicVoices

by AI4Bharat (IIT Madras)

16kh Indic-language ASR corpus across 22 Indian languages.

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TL;DR

Best for indic-language ASR training across 22 official Indian languages. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
★ 19
Last push
2026-02-22
Pricing
free
Platforms
HuggingFace

What it is

IndicVoices from AI4Bharat is ~16k hours of speech across 22 Indian languages — the canonical Indic ASR training corpus. License: CC BY 4.0.

Best for: Indic-language ASR training across 22 official Indian languages.
Watch out for: CC BY 4.0 · spontaneous + read speech · variable per-language quantity. Cite: Javed et al., ACL 2024.

Install / use

from datasets import load_dataset; ds = load_dataset('ai4bharat/IndicVoices', 'hindi')

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported22
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

AI4Bharat IndicVoices vs Whipscribe

FeatureAI4Bharat IndicVoicesWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages2299
PlatformsHuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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