IIST BCI Dataset-1 for Selected Common Malayalam Words

In today’s context, it is essential to develop technologies to help older patients with neurocognitive disorders communicate better with their caregivers. Research in Brain Computer Interface, especially in thought-to-text translation has been carried out in several languages like Chinese, Japanese and others. However, research of this nature has been hindered in India due to scarcity of datasets in vernacular languages, including Malayalam. Malayalam is a South Indian language, spoken primarily in the state of Kerala by bout 34 million people. This is what motivated us to generate our own Malayalam dataset, potentially leading to further advancements in Malayalam BCI research.