IIT Madras IndicTTS (Marathi)

IIT Madras IndicTTS (Marathi)

MH Specific

Studio-quality single-speaker TTS corpus with male and female Marathi recordings plus English by native speakers

Build a natural-sounding Marathi text-to-speech system using IndicTTS studio recordings for voice assistant applications.
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Quick Start

# Download from https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/
import torchaudio
# audio, sr = torchaudio.load('indictts_mr_sample.wav')
# print(f"Duration: {audio.shape[1]/sr:.2f}s, Sample rate: {sr}")
print("Download IndicTTS Marathi from: https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/")
Modality
Speech + Text (TTS)
Size
~40 hrs (10 hrs each: male mono, female mono, male English, female English)
License
Format
WAV
Language
mr
Update Frequency
static
Organization
IIT Madras
Category
speech-audio

Schema

FieldTypeDescription
audioaudioHigh-quality studio-recorded Marathi speech
textstringCorresponding text transcript
speaker_idstringSpeaker identifier

Build With This

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AI Use Cases

TTSSpeech Synthesis Research
Last verified: 2026-03-07