AI Kosh — India's National AI Dataset Repository¶
CDAC's curated collection of AI-ready datasets in Indian languages and domains — speech, text, images, satellite data.
Provider
CDAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) / MeitY
Website
Access Level
🟡 Free Registration Required
Formats Available
CSV, JSON, ZIP (audio/image datasets), API
Coverage
Indian languages, Indian geographies, Indian faces
Use Case
Machine learning, NLP, computer vision, geospatial AI
What Is AI Kosh?¶
AI Kosh is India's answer to the growing need for Indian-language and India-specific datasets for training AI models. Most global AI models are trained on English/Western data — AI Kosh provides datasets that reflect India's linguistic and geographic diversity.
Available Dataset Categories¶
| Category | Examples | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Speech (Audio) | 22 Indian language speech corpora, dialect data | TBs |
| Text (NLP) | POS-tagged, NER-tagged Indic text; parallel corpora | GBs |
| Handwriting | Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu handwriting recognition | GBs |
| Images | Indian face dataset, Indian traffic scenes, Indian food | GBs |
| Satellite | Multi-temporal satellite images for land cover classification | GBs |
| Health | Medical imaging datasets from Indian hospitals | GBs |
| Documents | Scanned Indian government documents, forms | GBs |
How to Access AI Kosh¶
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