Bengaluru, Karnataka · हिन्दी
Hindi Speech Data Collection in Bengaluru
Urban Kannada under heavy multilingual contact; the strongest Indian English pool in the country. That makes Bengaluru a specific choice for Hindi collection, not an interchangeable one.
- City
- Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Language
- Hindi
- Script
- Devanagari
Hindi as spoken in Bengaluru
Urban Kannada under heavy multilingual contact; the strongest Indian English pool in the country.
Urban Hindi speech is Hinglish in practice. Expect 15-40% English tokens in spontaneous speech: numbers, brands, technology terms, and whole clause switches. Any Hindi corpus that excludes English tokens will not match production traffic.
Recruitment here
Excellent for Indian English accent bands and technology-domain speakers; native Kannada requires residence screening.
Largest recruitment pool in the network. A 1,000-speaker Hindi cohort with balanced gender and 18-45 age bands is typically fielded across four cities to avoid a single-city accent bias.
Studio setup
Two booths with far-field and device-distance rigs for wake-word capture.
Hindi quality rules
- Inconsistent Devanagari vs romanised spelling for the same English loan word
- Nukta characters (क़ ख़ ग़ ज़ फ़) applied inconsistently by transcribers
- Numerals: whether to write digits, Devanagari numerals, or spelled-out words must be fixed in the style guide up front
- Honorific verb forms create long agreement chains that annotators shorten unless the guide forbids it
Session types available
- Scripted prompt reading (phonetically balanced sentence sets)
- Wake-word and command-and-control utterances
- Digit strings, dates, amounts, and Indian address formats
- Two-party spontaneous conversation on everyday topics
- Simulated call-centre calls: billing, delivery, recharge, banking
Building a balanced cohort
A Bengaluru-only cohort is appropriate when you are targeting this market specifically. For a general Hindi model, spread the cohort across Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur as well.
| Dimension | Typical split | Why it matters for Hindi |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | 50 / 50 | Pitch range differences change acoustic model behaviour; unbalanced cohorts bias recognition |
| Age | 18-25: 30%, 26-40: 40%, 41-60: 30% | Older speakers retain conservative Hindi forms that younger urban speakers have lost |
| Region | Uttar Pradesh / Bihar / Madhya Pradesh and others | Dialect spread across 7 recognised varieties |
| Education | Mixed, including below-graduate | Prompt-reading fluency correlates with education and skews prosody |
| Condition | Studio / quiet room / field | Match the noise profile of your deployment |
Frequently asked
Can you record Hindi in Bengaluru?
Yes. Two booths with far-field and device-distance rigs for wake-word capture.
Is Bengaluru Hindi representative?
For this market, yes. For a national model, no single city is: Largest recruitment pool in the network. A 1,000-speaker Hindi cohort with balanced gender and 18-45 age bands is typically fielded across four cities to avoid a single-city accent bias.
How long does recruitment take?
One to two weeks for standard quotas; longer for narrow age, dialect or occupation requirements.
Collect Hindi in Bengaluru
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