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What does speech data collection in Pune involve?
Updated 2026-08-01 · 4 min read
Short answer
Pune in Maharashtra is a recruitment hub for Marathi, Hindi, Hinglish. Puneri Marathi, the prestige standard, with a large student population for younger age bands. Strongest standard-Marathi pool and easy 18-25 age-band filling. Booth with long-session capacity suited to TTS voice builds. It is the right choice when your quota needs the varieties spoken here; it is the wrong choice when you need rural dialects from elsewhere in Maharashtra, in which case field recording outside the city is the honest answer.
Key takeaways
- Languages recorded here: Marathi, Hindi, Hinglish, Indian English.
- Puneri Marathi, the prestige standard, with a large student population for younger age bands.
- Booth with long-session capacity suited to TTS voice builds.
Dialect profile of Pune
Puneri Marathi, the prestige standard, with a large student population for younger age bands.
Cities are not neutral sampling grounds. Urban speech in Pune carries more code-mixing, more media-influenced pronunciation and a younger age skew than the surrounding districts, so a corpus recorded entirely here will not represent Maharashtra as a whole.
Who you can recruit
Strongest standard-Marathi pool and easy 18-25 age-band filling.
Screening verifies the claimed dialect and district rather than accepting self-declaration, because participants routinely under-report regional features when speaking to a recruiter.
Studio and field capability
Booth with long-session capacity suited to TTS voice builds.
Where the deployment audio is telephony, we capture over a real narrowband path in the same city rather than downsampling studio audio, since the two are not equivalent for model training.
What to record here
- Scripted and spontaneous Marathi speech with urban dialect coverage
- Conversational two-party audio on separate channels
- Telephony and contact-centre style corpora
- Code-mixed English material, which is denser in metro speech
- TTS voice recording where a treated booth is required
When to record elsewhere
If your quota calls for varieties spoken outside Pune, the correct answer is field recording in those districts, not a city recording with a dialect label attached. We run mobile kits for exactly this reason, and the cost difference is smaller than the cost of a corpus your evaluation later rejects.
Frequently asked questions
Which languages are recorded in Pune?
Marathi, Hindi, Hinglish, Indian English, with English code-mixing common in urban speech.
Is studio recording available in Pune?
Booth with long-session capacity suited to TTS voice builds.
Can rural speakers be recruited from Pune?
Some, through migrant populations, but a genuine rural dialect quota is better served by field recording in the target districts of Maharashtra.
How fast can a session start in Pune?
Typically within one to two weeks of scope sign-off, subject to quota complexity and studio availability.
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