  This paper introduces Pansori, a program used to create ASR (automatic speech
recognition) corpora from online video contents. It utilizes a cloud-based
speech API to easily create a corpus in different languages. Using this
program, we semi-automatically generated the Pansori-TEDxKR dataset from Korean
TED conference talks with community-transcribed subtitles. It is the first
high-quality corpus for the Korean language freely available for independent
research. Pansori is released as an open-source software and the generated
corpus is released under a permissive public license for community use and
participation.
