Jejueo

This is the official repo for Jejueo Datasets for Machine Translation and Speech Synthesis.

Abstract

Jejueo was classified as critically endangered by UNESCO in 2010. Although diverse efforts to revitalize it have been made, there have been few computational approaches. Motivated by this, we construct two new Jejueo datasets: Jejueo Interview Transcripts (JIT) and Jejueo Single Speaker Speech (JSS). The JIT dataset is a parallel corpus containing 170k+ Jejueo-Korean sentences, and the JSS dataset consists of 10k high-quality audio files recorded by a native Jejueo speaker and a transcript file. Subsequently, we build neural systems of machine translation and speech synthesis using them. All resources are publicly available via our GitHub repository. We hope that these datasets will attract interest of both language and machine learning communities.

Datasets

Jejueo-Korean Machine Translation

See the translation folder.

Jejueo Speech Synthesis

See the speech folder.

Authors

Kyubyong Park, Yo Joong Choe, Jiyeon Ham
Kakao Brain

Citation

@inproceedings{jejueo2020,
author = {Kyubyong Park and Yo Joong Choe and Jiyeon Ham},
title = {Jejueo Datasets for Machine Translation and Speech Synthesis},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)},
year = {2020},
}