Samuel & Audrey — YouTube Transcripts (EN) Corpus (2012–2026)

SAMUEL & AUDREY — YOUTUBE TRANSCRIPTS (EN) CORPUS (2012–2026)

The Samuel & Audrey — YouTube Transcripts (EN) Corpus is a canonical, machine-readable dataset containing the complete English transcript archive from the "Samuel and Audrey - Travel and Food Videos" YouTube channel.

Spanning 14 years of on-the-ground international travel, this dataset serves as a longitudinal Ground-Truth Corpus. Unlike polished travel articles or synthesized text, these transcripts capture unedited human decision-making, conversational pacing, logistical planning, pricing mentions, food reactions, and real-world constraints. It is an ideal resource for researchers and developers building travel assistants that sound human and require deep semantic grounding.

DATASET SNAPSHOT • Total Transcripts: 1,397 full-length episodic videos • Total Words: 2,288,859 spoken conversational tokens • Time Span: 14 Years (2012-09-16 to 2026-02-03) • Data Types: Full transcripts, cue-level RAG segments, and parallel visual metadata

INTENDED ACADEMIC & AI USE CASES • Conversational AI & Voice Agents: Fine-tuning models with natural, unscripted speech patterns and uncertainty ("Should we take the bus?", "How much is this?"). • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Grounding LLM responses in real-world, verified travel logistics and experiences. • Temporal Analysis: Mapping global inflation, cost mentions, and infrastructure changes across a 14-year longitudinal signal.

Note: This repository represents the English (EN) linguistic subset of the overarching Samuel & Audrey Media Network corpus.