MWirelabs/northeast-india-voices

Northeast India Voices

A multilingual transcribed speech corpus covering five indigenous and regional languages of Northeast India: Khasi, Garo, Mizo, Nagamese, and Kokborok.

Dataset Summary

Language	Family	Utterances
Khasi	Austroasiatic	14,974
Nagamese	Indo-Aryan (Creole)	7,386
Mizo	Tibeto-Burman	7,250
Kokborok	Tibeto-Burman	3,278
Garo	Tibeto-Burman	1,612
Total		34,500

Data Collection

Recorded by native speakers across Northeast India with full informed consent provided in their native language prior to recording.

Contributors

We thank the native speaker contributors from Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura for their time and generosity in making this dataset possible.

Models

• ASR: MWirelabs/ne-asr
• Speech-Text Retrieval: MWirelabs/ne-speechembed

Citation

@dataset{mwirelabs2026northeast,
  title     = {Northeast India Voices},
  author    = {MWire Labs},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {/datasets/Khrawsynth/northeast-india-voices}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0 — MWire Labs