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Free Odia speech data sample
Thirty minutes of Odia audio, recorded to your specification with transcripts and full metadata, at no cost. It exists so you can judge us on files rather than on claims.
- Sample size
- ~30 minutes
- Cost
- Free
- Turnaround
- 5-8 working days
- Formats
- WAV 48 kHz + transcript + metadata
What the sample contains
- Odia audio from at least four speakers with a mixed gender and age spread
- Coverage of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar standard, Sambalpuri (Kosli), Ganjami where your spec calls for dialect breadth
- Verbatim transcripts in Odia, with a romanised parallel transcript on request
- Per-file metadata: speaker ID, age band, gender, district, device, environment and SNR
- A short QA report showing how the files were checked before they were sent
How to specify it
| Decision | Options | Default if you do not say |
|---|---|---|
| Speech type | Scripted / spontaneous / conversational / telephony | Scripted plus a spontaneous block |
| Environment | Studio / quiet room / field / call path | Studio and quiet room, split |
| Sample rate | 48 kHz, 16 kHz, 8 kHz | 48 kHz mastered, 16 kHz derived |
| Dialects | Cuttack-Bhubaneswar standard, Sambalpuri (Kosli), Ganjami | Standard variety plus one regional |
| Annotation | Verbatim / timestamps / speaker turns / event tags | Verbatim with timestamps |
The sample is only useful if it looks like the data you would actually buy. Send the spec you would put in a purchase order and we record against that.
What to test it against
- Run it through your existing ASR or TTS pipeline and read the error breakdown by speaker and dialect
- Check how Odia code-mixing is transcribed: Urban Odia mixes Hindi and English; western Odisha mixes Chhattisgarhi and Sambalpuri forms.
- Check the transcription convention against your tokeniser — Sambalpuri normalised into coastal Odia is the usual failure point
- Confirm the metadata is complete enough to filter and stratify by
What a Odia sample usually exposes
Odia has roughly 38 million speakers across Odisha, parts of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, and models trained on generic multilingual data typically fail on the same things each time.
Odia is one of the least-resourced major Indian languages. Sambalpuri and Ganjami are effectively absent from public data.
- Phonetics your acoustic model may not have seen: Retains a distinct retroflex ଳ and a full retroflex series
- Utterance types worth sampling separately: Coastal and western Odisha spontaneous conversation, separately tagged, Government-scheme and agriculture domain prompts, Read prompts balanced for retroflex contrasts
- Recording geography in the sample: Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sambalpur
What happens after
Nothing automatic. If the sample works, we scope the full build against the same specification and quote a fixed price. If it does not, tell us what failed — that feedback is more useful to us than a polite no.
Western Odisha recruitment requires local field partners; remote-only recruitment yields an all-coastal cohort.
Frequently asked
Is the Odia sample really free?
Yes. There is no charge and no obligation. We cap it at roughly 30 minutes because that is enough to judge quality without becoming an unpaid production run.
Can we use the sample data commercially?
The sample is licensed for evaluation. Full commercial rights and IP transfer come with a paid delivery, including a paid pilot.
How long does it take?
Five to eight working days from an agreed specification, depending on how narrow the speaker cohort is.
Can we specify our own script?
Yes. Send your prompts, wake words or domain vocabulary and we record those instead of our standard set.
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Request your free Odia sample
Send the specification you would buy against. Thirty minutes of audio, transcripts and metadata come back within a week.