metadata.csv

--> Fill Consent & Details Before submitting your data:

✅ Give your consent to allow VISWAM/Swecha/IIIT-H to use your data to build Telugu AI ✅ Allow them to collect info like location, time of recording ✅ You’re helping in building public Telugu datasets!

--> Validate Your Contribution After uploading:

You’ll see the transcription of your audio (if available)

Check it for correctness (spelling, punctuation)

Ask your friends or family to help check (peer validation)

✅ Make sure the content is correct, natural, and respectful.

🕓 Daily Plan (4 Hours Work) Here’s what you're expected to collect in a 4-hour shift:

Type Target Audio 14 files Video 6 files Images 120 photos Text 5 stories

🕐 For 8 hours: Just double it.

🔄 Example Scenario You choose: FolkSongs

Go to your grandmother and record her singing a festival song.

Save it as bathukamma_song.mp3

Upload it into: YourName/FolkSongs/Audio/bathukamma_song.mp3

In metadata.csv, add:

mathematica Copy Edit File Name,Category,District,Language,Description bathukamma_song.mp3,FolkSongs,Warangal,Telugu,బతుకమ్మ పండుగ పాట - పెద్దమ్మగారు పాడినది Review and fix the auto-transcribed text.

Done ✅

🌱 Why You Are Doing This You're helping preserve:

Our culture

Our people’s voices

Village knowledge

Old traditions