PAARI Hindi TTS Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains TTS-optimized chunks of journalism articles in Hindi (हिन्दी) from the People's Archive of Rural India (PAARI). The articles focus on rural life, agriculture, social issues, and cultural stories from rural India.

Dataset Details

Language: Hindi (हिन्दी)
Script: Devanagari
Language Code: hi
Dataset Type: TTS-optimized
Source: Rural India Online
License: Please refer to PAARI's terms of use

Dataset Structure

TTS Dataset Fields

article_id: Unique identifier for the source article
chunk_id: Sequential chunk number within the article
title: Article title in Hindi
text: Chunked article content optimized for TTS (≤800 characters) in Hindi
text_length: Length of the text chunk in characters
total_chunks: Total number of chunks for this article
language: Language code
language_name: Full language name

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("keplersystems/PAARI-Hindi-TTS")

# Access examples
for chunk in dataset["train"]:
    print(f"Article {chunk["article_id"]}, Chunk {chunk["chunk_id"]}: {chunk["text"][:100]}...")

Text Processing

The text has been cleaned and processed with:

HTML entity decoding
HTML tag removal
Devanagari-specific text normalization
Whitespace normalization
Sentence-boundary aware chunking for TTS optimization

Data Quality

Articles filtered for completeness (both title and text required)
Language-specific text cleaning applied
Optimal chunk sizes for speech synthesis

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{paari-hi-tts-dataset,
    title={PAARI Hindi TTS Dataset},
    author={People's Archive of Rural India},
    howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/keplersystems/PAARI-Hindi-TTS}},
    year={2025}
}

Acknowledgments

This dataset is derived from the excellent journalism work of the People's Archive of Rural India (PAARI) and Rural India Online. We thank all the journalists, photographers, and contributors who created this valuable content documenting rural Indian life and culture.

Contact

For questions about this dataset, please open an issue on the dataset repository.

Datasets:

keplersystems
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PAARI-Hindi-TTS

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