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 # IMaSC: ICFOSS Malayalam Speech Corpus
 **IMaSC** is a Malayalam text and speech corpus made available by [ICFOSS](https://icfoss.in/) for the purpose of developing speech technology for Malayalam, particularly text-to-speech. The corpus contains 34,473 text-audio pairs of Malayalam sentences spoken by 8 speakers, totalling in approximately 50 hours of audio.
 ## Dataset Structure
 The dataset consists of 34,473 instances with fields `text`, `speaker`, and `audio`. The audio is mono, sampled at 16kH. The transcription is normalized and only includes Malayalam characters and common punctuation. The table given below specifies how the 34,473 instances are split between the speakers, along with some basic speaker info:

 # IMaSC: ICFOSS Malayalam Speech Corpus
 **IMaSC** is a Malayalam text and speech corpus made available by [ICFOSS](https://icfoss.in/) for the purpose of developing speech technology for Malayalam, particularly text-to-speech. The corpus contains 34,473 text-audio pairs of Malayalam sentences spoken by 8 speakers, totalling in approximately 50 hours of audio.
+## Dataset Description
+- **Paper:[IMaSC — ICFOSS Malayalam Speech Corpus](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12796)**
+- **Point of Contact: [Thennal D K](thennal10@gmail.com)**
 ## Dataset Structure
 The dataset consists of 34,473 instances with fields `text`, `speaker`, and `audio`. The audio is mono, sampled at 16kH. The transcription is normalized and only includes Malayalam characters and common punctuation. The table given below specifies how the 34,473 instances are split between the speakers, along with some basic speaker info: