My Science Tutor (MyST) -- A Large Corpus of Children's Conversational Speech
This article describes the MyST corpus developed as part of the My Science Tutor project -- one of the largest collections of children's conversational speech comprising approximately 400 hours, spanning some 230K utterances across about 10.5K virtual tutor sessions by around 1.3K third, fourth and fifth grade students. 100K of all utterances have been transcribed thus far. The corpus is freely available (https://myst.cemantix.org) for non-commercial use using a creative commons license. It is also available for commercial use (https://boulderlearning.com/resources/myst-corpus/). To date, ten organizations have licensed the corpus for commercial use, and approximately 40 university and other not-for-profit research groups have downloaded the corpus. It is our hope that the corpus can be used to improve automatic speech recognition algorithms, build and evaluate conversational AI agents for education, and together help accelerate development of multimodal applications to improve children's excitement and learning about science, and help them learn remotely.
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