Pansori TEDxKR Corpus

The Pansori TEDxKR Corpus is a Korean speech recognition (ASR) corpus generated from Korean language TEDx talks given in Korea from 2010 to 2014. It contains about 3 hours of speech audio-transcript pairs from 41 speakers.

This corpus was generated by using a new corpus data ingestion and processing system called Pansori. Please refer to this code repository and the following paper for further information on the Pansori ASR corpus generation system:

• Yoona Choi and Bowon Lee, "Pansori: ASR Corpus Generation from Open Online Video Contents," Proceedings of IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest 2018, Hongik University, pp. 117--121, Nov. 2018.

Extra care was taken to maintain the quality of the generated corpus:

• Only TEDx talks hand transcribed by community translators were included.
• Corpus fragments were segmented at subtitle boundaries.
• Fine tuning segmentation by manual (tool-assisted) speech-text alignment.
• Final validation by state-of-the-art speech recognizer (Google Cloud Speech-To-Text).

The speech audio included in the corpus are 16 bit FLAC files with sampling rate of 16 KHz. Further information on the included speech contents is summarized in the following table:

Title	Speaker	Gender	Location	Year	Fragments	Duration
Appropriate technology	이성범	M	Seoul	2010	87	5:58
Making a village worth living in	김혜정	F	Busan	2012	191	9:14
The true owner of land	남기업	M	Busan	2012	155	6:43
Starting from where I am	황두진	M	Seoul	2010	117	6:41
Telling the new story in the old form	이자람	F	Seoul	2010	92	7:50
Dreaming a way to future aerial vehicle from unmanned aircraft	구삼옥	M	Daedeok	2011	121	7:34
Misconception about evaluations	유정식	M	Busan	2012	158	6:43
Be an artist, right now!	김영하	M	Seoul	2013	131	5:47
Communication is recovery	박임순	F	Busan	2012	161	6:24
Jeju Olleh	서명숙	F	Seoul	2010	135	9:16
DIY OOOSSSZZZ band	유상준	M	Seoul	2010	44	2:22
Dynamic biology	이선희	F	Daedeok	2011	68	4:44
Active immersion in thinking	황농문	M	Daejeon	2012	84	5:01
Becoming a good-earthling	이현정	F	Busan	2011	95	3:53
More humane medical experience	김승범, 정혜진	M, F	Seoul	2010	80	4:36
Finding new energy to overcome resource limits	이경수	M	Daejeon	2010	53	4:43
Which do you love, pictures or camera?	박희진	M	Busan	2014	38	2:42
Every citizen is a journalist	오연호	M	Seoul	2010	61	4:10
Take time to imagine the world to rights	윤한결	M	Busan	2013	126	5:01
With feeling the aesthetics of slowness	이상은	F	Daejeon	2011	29	3:45
Beating disabilities to pioneer grassroots journalism	조주현	M	Daejeon	2010	37	3:56
Statistics 3.0	이인실	F	Busan	2011	94	3:42
Why Analytical Science?	정광화	F	Daedeok	2011	58	3:56
Redefinition of soil and its possibilities	신근식	M	Busan	2011	76	3:51
Predict disease with face	김종열	M	Daedeok	2011	72	4:08
Sustainable DoReMi	고건혁	M	Seoul	2010	78	3:10
ITER, towards the dream of a fusion energy era	정기정	M	Daedeok	2010	45	3:35
Winning the world with the 'DID' mindset	송수용	M	Daejeon	2010	66	3:19
Social venture is blue ocean	김정현	M	Busan	2011	60	2:56
No prerequisite learning, no worry	신현승	M	Busan	2012	49	2:44
Passion and challenge	신창연	M	Busan	2011	88	2:46
Are science and liberal arts equal?	김상욱	M	Busan	2013	67	2:36
Perspective, music and life	다이나믹듀오	M	Seoul	2012	48	2:51
아이티 구호현장에서 발견한 음식의 가치	김재학	M	Seoul	2010	8	0:25
A spirit of sharing information and culture 'CC'	최진권	M	Daejeon	2010	18	1:42
Gibbons, long-armed apes	김산하	M	Seoul	2010	73	2:22
Never let go of your passion, just keep working on it	김대식	M	Daejeon	2010	23	1:50
Inconvenient truth of Korean Web	김기창	M	Busan	2012	37	1:52
Statecraft, the art of conducting public affairs	윤여준	M	Seoul	2010	46	1:59
Korean traditional hawk hunting	박용순	M	Daejeon	2011	21	1:09
Multiple identity diaspora	김경묵	M	Seoul	2010	1	0:12

The corpus can be downloaded either individually or as a whole from the GitHub repository. Alternatively, they are also available for download in one single archive file in the following link: https://storage.googleapis.com/pansori/corpus/pansori-tedxkr-corpus-1.0.tar.gz [170MB].

We are currently preparing a large-sized Korean language ASR corpus by further automating the data processing pipeline used to generate this TEDxKR corpus. The new Korean ASR corpus will also be released under a permissive license once we confirm the types of license with the license holder.