Dataset Card for KsponSpeech

Dataset Summary

This corpus contains 969 h of general open-domain dialog utterances, spoken by about 2000 native Korean speakers in a clean environment. All data were constructed by recording the dialogue of two people freely conversing on a variety of topics and manually transcribing the utterances. The transcription provides a dual transcription consisting of orthography and pronunciation, and disfluency tags for spontaneity of speech, such as filler words, repeated words, and word fragments. This paper also presents the baseline performance of an end-to-end speech recognition model trained with KsponSpeech. In addition, we investigated the performance of standard end-to-end architectures and the number of sub-word units suitable for Korean. We investigated issues that should be considered in spontaneous speech recognition in Korean. KsponSpeech is publicly available on an open data hub site of the Korea government.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

Korean

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  'id': 'KsponSpeech_E00001',
  'audio': {'path': None,
  'array': array([0.0010376 , 0.00085449, 0.00097656, ..., 0.00250244, 0.0022583 ,
          0.00253296]),
  'sampling_rate': 16000},
  'text': '어 일단은 억지로 과장해서 이렇게 하는 것보다 진실된 마음으로 이걸 어떻게 전달할 수 있을까 공감을 시킬 수 있을까 해서 좀'
}

Data Fields

• audio: A dictionary containing the path to the downloaded audio file, the decoded audio array, and the sampling rate. Note that when accessing the audio column: dataset[0]["audio"] the audio file is automatically decoded and resampled to dataset.features["audio"].sampling_rate. Decoding and resampling of a large number of audio files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "audio" column, i.e. dataset[0]["audio"] should always be preferred over dataset["audio"][0].
• text: the transcription of the audio file.
• id: unique id of the data sample.

Data Splits

	Train	Valid	eval.clean	eval.other
#samples	620000	2545	3000	3000

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@Article{app10196936,
AUTHOR = {Bang, Jeong-Uk and Yun, Seung and Kim, Seung-Hi and Choi, Mu-Yeol and Lee, Min-Kyu and Kim, Yeo-Jeong and Kim, Dong-Hyun and Park, Jun and Lee, Young-Jik and Kim, Sang-Hun},
TITLE = {KsponSpeech: Korean Spontaneous Speech Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition},
JOURNAL = {Applied Sciences},
VOLUME = {10},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {19},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {6936},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/19/6936},
ISSN = {2076-3417},
ABSTRACT = {This paper introduces a large-scale spontaneous speech corpus of Korean, named KsponSpeech. This corpus contains 969 h of general open-domain dialog utterances, spoken by about 2000 native Korean speakers in a clean environment. All data were constructed by recording the dialogue of two people freely conversing on a variety of topics and manually transcribing the utterances. The transcription provides a dual transcription consisting of orthography and pronunciation, and disfluency tags for spontaneity of speech, such as filler words, repeated words, and word fragments. This paper also presents the baseline performance of an end-to-end speech recognition model trained with KsponSpeech. In addition, we investigated the performance of standard end-to-end architectures and the number of sub-word units suitable for Korean. We investigated issues that should be considered in spontaneous speech recognition in Korean. KsponSpeech is publicly available on an open data hub site of the Korea government.},
DOI = {10.3390/app10196936}
}