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My Science Tutor (MyST) -- A Large Corpus of Children's Conversational Speech

arXiv 2309.13347 ↗First posted 23 Sep 2023cs.CL cs.SD eess.AScited by 28

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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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  1. 2021SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkitcited by 406
  2. 2021End-to-End Neural Systems for Automatic Children Speech Recognition: An Empirical Studycited by 18

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  1. 2024SD-Eval: A Benchmark Dataset for Spoken Dialogue Understanding Beyond Wordscited by 68
  2. 2025TTSDS2: Resources and Benchmark for Evaluating Human-Quality Text to Speech Systemscited by 8
  3. 2025Hallucination Benchmark for Speech Foundation Modelscited by 8
  4. 2025Self-Supervised Models for Phoneme Recognition: Applications in Children's Speech for Reading Learningcited by 6
  5. 2025Benchmarking Training Paradigms, Dataset Composition, and Model Scaling for Child ASR in ESPnetcited by 6
  6. 2024Children's Speech Recognition through Discrete Token Enhancementcited by 4
  7. 2025SSVD: Structured SVD for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Benchmarking under Domain Shift in ASRcited by 4
  8. 2025TICL+: A Case Study On Speech In-Context Learning for Children's Speech Recognitioncited by 4
  9. 2026SALSA: Speech Aware LLM Adaptation via Learned Steering Activation Vectorscited by 4
  10. 2024FASA: a Flexible and Automatic Speech Aligner for Extracting High-quality Aligned Children Speech Datacited by 3
  11. 2024Automatic Screening for Children with Speech Disorder using Automatic Speech Recognition: Opportunities and Challengescited by 3
  12. 2025TICL: Text-Embedding KNN For Speech In-Context Learning Unlocks Speech Recognition Abilities of Large Multimodal Modelscited by 3
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  2. 2025Towards Pretraining Robust ASR Foundation Model with Acoustic-Aware Data Augmentationcited by 1
  3. 2025SimClass: A Classroom Speech Dataset Generated via Game Engine Simulation For Automatic Speech Recognition Researchcited by 1
  4. 2026SSVD-O: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Structured SVD for Speech Recognitioncited by 1
  5. 2026MetaSICL: Globalizing Auditory LLMs for Underserved Speakers and Languages via Meta Speech In-Context Learningcited by 1
  6. 2026Entropy-Aware Domain-Routed Mixture-of-Experts Speech-LLM Framework: A Case Study of Multi-Domain Child-Adult ASRcited by 1
  7. 2025Causal Structure Discovery for Error Diagnostics of Children's ASRcited by 0
  8. 2025RealClass: A Framework for Classroom Speech Simulation with Public Datasets and Game Enginescited by 0
  9. 2025KidSpeak: A General Multi-purpose LLM for Kids' Speech Recognition and Screeningcited by 0
  10. 2026Abjad-Kids: An Arabic Speech Classification Dataset for Primary Educationcited by 0
  11. 2026When AI Meets Early Childhood Education: Large Language Models as Assessment Teammates in Chinese Preschoolscited by 0
  12. 2026Child-Centric Voice Anonymization in Single and Multi-Speaker Speech via Domain-Adapted SSL Modelscited by 0
  13. 2026Encoder Awakening via Adapters: Effective Domain-Adaptive Fine-tuning of Speech-LLMscited by 0
  14. 2026Deep Learning Techniques for Phoneme Recognition in Italian Children' s Speechcited by 0
  15. 2026AraYoungVoices: A Diverse L1/L2 Corpus of Arabic Child and Adolescent Speechcited by 0
  16. 2026Child ASR Adaptation with Adult Retention: An Empirical Studycited by 0