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  license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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+ language:
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+ pretty_name: SBS Cantonese Speech Corpus
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+ # SBS Cantonese Speech Corpus
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+ This speech corpus contains 435 hours of [SBS Cantonese](https://www.sbs.com.au/language/chinese/zh-hant/podcast/sbs-cantonese) podcasts from Auguest 2022 to October 2023.
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+ There are 2,519 episodes and each episode is split into segments that are at most 10 seconds long. In total, there are 189,216 segments in this corpus.
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+ Here is a breakdown on the categories of episodes present in this dataset:
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+ | Category | SBS Channels | Episodes |
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+ |-------------------|----------------------|-------|
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+ | news | 中文新聞, 新聞簡報 | 622 |
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+ | business | 寰宇金融 | 148 |
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+ | vaccine | 疫苗快報 | 71 |
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+ | gardening | 園藝趣談 | 58 |
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+ | tech | 科技世界 | 56 |
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+ | health | 健康快樂人 | 53 |
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+ | culture | 文化360 | 49 |
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+ | english | 學英語 | 41 |
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+ | expert | 專家話你知 | 37 |
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+ | interview | 我不是名人 | 20 |
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+ | career | 澳洲招職 | 18 |
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+ | food | 美食速遞 | 18 |
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+ | uncategorized | n/a | 1328 |
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+ * Uncategorized episodes are mostly news but also contains other categories listed above.
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+ ## Dataset Details
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+ ### Dataset Description
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+ <!-- Provide a longer summary of what this dataset is. -->
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+ - **Curated by:** Kevin Li
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+ - **Language(s):** Cantonese, English (only in podcasts categorized as "english")
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+ - **License:** Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0
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+ ### Scraper
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+ <!-- Provide the basic links for the dataset. -->
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+ - **Repository:** https://github.com/AlienKevin/sbs_cantonese
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+ ## Uses
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+ Each episode is split into segments using [silero-vad](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad).
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+ Since silero-vad is not trained on Cantonese data, the segmentation is not ideal and often break sentences in the middle.
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+ Hence, this dataset is not intended to be used for supervised ASR. Instead, it is intended to be used for self-supervised
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+ speech pretraining, like training WavLM, HuBERT, and Wav2Vec.
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+ Each segment is stored as a monochannel FLAC file with a sample rate of 16k Hz. You can find the segments under the `audio/` folder,
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+ where groups of segments are bundled into a .tar.gz file for ease of distribution.