Pune, Maharashtra · हिन्दी
Hindi Speech Data Collection in Pune
Puneri Marathi, the prestige standard, with a large student population for younger age bands. That makes Pune a specific choice for Hindi collection, not an interchangeable one.
- City
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Language
- Hindi
- Script
- Devanagari
Hindi as spoken in Pune
Puneri Marathi, the prestige standard, with a large student population for younger age bands.
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
Strongest standard-Marathi pool and easy 18-25 age-band filling.
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
Booth with long-session capacity suited to TTS voice builds.
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 Pune-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 Pune?
Yes. Booth with long-session capacity suited to TTS voice builds.
Is Pune 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 Pune
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