Dehwali Bhili Language Speech Prompts

About Dataset

Bhili is an indigenous Indo-Aryan language spoken by over 10 million members of the Bhil tribal community across western and central India. Through Project Astitva, Karya collaborated with 400+ native Bhili speakers in partnership with the district administration of Nandurbar, Maharashtra, to create high-quality digital language resources for Dehwali Bhili. These efforts enabled the development of India's first tribal language model in Bhili, which has subsequently been integrated into MahaVISTAAR AI with support from the Maharashtra state government and Bhashini. This dataset is comprised of audio speech data in the Dehwali Bhili language, collected for the purpose of language research and development. This dataset consists of speech prompts in Marathi and Dehwali Bhili languages, covering various categories such as agriculture, advisory, and livestock. The dataset includes data points for agricultural information, including crop advice and market prices. The dataset is likely used for language processing, speech recognition, or natural language understanding applications. The target audience for this dataset includes researchers, developers, and linguists interested in language processing and speech recognition. The dataset has potential use cases in areas such as language translation, speech synthesis, and chatbots. Additionally, it can be used for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and text classification tasks. The dataset's scope is limited to the provided speech prompts and data points, and its geographical coverage is India.