Karnataka · studio network
Speech Data Collection in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is one of the recording sites in our nationwide network. Urban Kannada under heavy multilingual contact; the strongest Indian English pool in the country.
- State
- Karnataka
- Languages
- 6
- Setup
- Two booths with far-field and device-distance rigs for wake-word capture.
Why we record in Bengaluru
Where most Indian speech-AI teams sit, so it is the default city for evaluation cohorts and the easiest for clients to visit.
Native Kannada alongside very large Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam populations, plus the highest concentration of fluent Indian English speakers in the country. Genuinely four-way multilingual rather than nominally so.
Languages recorded here
- Kannada
- Indian English
- Hinglish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Hindi
Dialect profile
Urban Kannada under heavy multilingual contact; the strongest Indian English pool in the country.
Recruitment pool
Excellent for Indian English accent bands and technology-domain speakers; native Kannada requires residence screening.
Over-represents technology-sector, English-dominant, highly educated speakers. A Bengaluru Kannada cohort skews urban and away from North Karnataka forms.
City choice is a data-quality decision, not a logistics decision. It determines which dialects end up in your corpus.
Studio setup
Two booths with far-field and device-distance rigs for wake-word capture.
Running sessions in Bengaluru
Studio availability is good and coordinator supply is the best in the network. Traffic makes afternoon sessions unreliable, so scheduling skews to morning and evening blocks.
Field recording conditions here
Office and campus interiors, cafés and vehicle capture. Cleaner and more affluent than most field environments in the network.
The numbers we hold ourselves to
- 100% of delivered files pass automated technical QA for SNR, clipping, duration and silence
- 5-25% of files pass a second native-speaker content review, stratified by city, dialect and transcriber, and escalating to 100% on any batch that fails the agreed threshold
- Accepted yield runs 85-90% for scripted speech, 60-70% for spontaneous, 55-65% for conversational and 50-60% for telephony
- Default cohort quotas: 50/50 gender, with age bands at 30% (18-25), 40% (26-40) and 30% (41-60)
- 48 kHz / 24-bit capture, delivered as 16-bit PCM WAV, with studio sessions held below a -50 dBFS noise floor
- First response within one working day; a scoped, fixed quote within two to three
These are the figures a delivery is measured against, not aspirations. A batch that misses them is re-recorded at our cost rather than repaired.
What every session includes
- Local coordinators recruit and screen against your quota matrix
- Participants are briefed and consented on site
- Sessions run to the same template as every other city in the network
- Technical QA runs on upload, so defects are caught while the speaker can still be recalled
Frequently asked
Can you record in Bengaluru only?
You can, but be clear about what that buys you. Over-represents technology-sector, English-dominant, highly educated speakers. A Bengaluru Kannada cohort skews urban and away from North Karnataka forms. For most languages we recommend spreading the cohort across at least three cities.
How fast can sessions start in Bengaluru?
Recruitment typically takes one to two weeks depending on how narrow your quotas are. Studio availability is good and coordinator supply is the best in the network. Traffic makes afternoon sessions unreliable, so scheduling skews to morning and evening blocks.
What does field recording in Bengaluru sound like?
Office and campus interiors, cafés and vehicle capture. Cleaner and more affluent than most field environments in the network. Every session's noise profile is documented so you can match it against your deployment environment.
Which languages are strongest in Bengaluru?
Kannada, Indian English, Hinglish, Tamil and 2 more. Excellent for Indian English accent bands and technology-domain speakers; native Kannada requires residence screening.
Record in Bengaluru
Send the language, speaker count and conditions you need.