Korean Broadcast News Speech
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This data set consists of 18 audio files recorded by LDC in January 2000 and
February 2000 from Voice of America (VOA) satellite radio news broadcasts
in Korean.

The recordings,captured from a dedicated satellite receiver, are
stored as 16-bit PCM, 16-kHz, single-channel, in NIST SPHERE format.
The duration of each recording is either 30 minutes or 60 minutes,
depending on the VOA broadcast schedule; the date (YYYYMMDD),
start-time and end-time (HHMM, Eastern Standard Time) for each
recording are indicated in the file names.  The sample data are not
compressed.

Transcripts for these recordings are available as a separate corpus
from the LDC:  Korean Broadcast News Transcripts, LDC2006T14.

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