Who transcribes Korean content?
Korean broadcasters, K-content subtitling teams, market researchers conducting interviews in Seoul, and academics in Korean studies transcribe Korean audio regularly. Korean-language diaspora media, churches, and community organizations in the United States, Canada, and Australia also use transcription to caption and archive their content.
Korean dialects and accents
Standard South Korean, based on Seoul speech, dominates broadcast media and is what most speech recognition models are trained on. Regional dialects such as Gyeongsang, Jeolla, and Chungcheong differ in intonation and vocabulary, and Jeju speech is divergent enough that linguists often classify it as a separate language.
Where Korean is spoken
Korean is spoken in South Korea, North Korea, and parts of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Philippines, and the United States.