In 2022, the Korean conglomerate Samsung had ******* employees worldwide. At its headquarter in South Korea alone, Samsung employed more than a hundred thousand workers as of December 2022. Samsung Electronics Founded by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company in 1938, Samsung ventured into the electronics market in the late 1960s and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s. Now one of the largest conglomerates in the world in terms of market value, Samsung is the largest “chaebol” (business conglomerate) in South Korea and accounts for a significant portion of the country’s GDP. The company’s annual revenue amounted to around *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide in 2019; the mobile communications and semiconductor segments are its largest revenue generators, bringing in billions of U.S. dollars every quarter. Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone line is among the most popular in the world and contributes towards making it one of the largest smartphone brands in the world in terms of worldwide shipments.

Korea Non Life Insurance: Number of Employees: Samsung data was reported at 5,805.000 Person in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 5,734.000 Person for Dec 2017. Korea Non Life Insurance: Number of Employees: Samsung data is updated monthly, averaging 5,406.500 Person from Mar 2001 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 198 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6,051.000 Person in Oct 2016 and a record low of 3,712.000 Person in Dec 2002. Korea Non Life Insurance: Number of Employees: Samsung data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by General Insurance Association of Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Korea – Table KR.RG026: Non Life Insurance: Number of Employee.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, Samsung's operating profit amounted to around 6.5 billion South Koran won, a sharp decrease compared to the previous quarter. Samsung as a CE giant Samsung ranks among the largest companies in the world in terms of market value and is perhaps best known for its various lines of successful consumer electronics products. The company’s biggest segment is its mobile communications business which primarily focuses on smartphone products such as the new Samsung Galaxy Fold. In addition to its own Samsung-branded products, the company also serves as the display manufacturer for many other devices in the consumer electronics market. The company employs hundreds of thousands of workers and accounts for a significant portion of South Korea’s GDP, meaning that Samsung is massively influential within both its home country and throughout the world.

The global revenue made by Samsung Electronics between 2005 and 2023 has overall significantly grown. In 2024, Samsung Electronics recorded a revenue of over *** trillion South Korean won, although only the second-highest recorded revenue for the Korean giant in the given period, but also the company's highest revenue reported in U.S. dollars with approximately *** billion U.S. dollars. Samsung Electronics and subsidiaries Samsung was founded in 1938 and originally dealt with groceries as well as the production noodles. It quickly diversified into various sectors including insurance and retail and became the present day corporation in 1947, after a joint investment in Samsung Mulsan Gongsa. The headquarters are found in Seoul, South Korea. There are several subsidiaries that account for the variety of enterprises that the Samsung Group undertakes including Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Heavy Industries. Samsung Electronics is one of the largest subsidiaries of the Samsung Group, making much over half of the group’s revenue. Samsung Electronics is headquartered in Suwon, South Korea and has assembly plants and sales networks in ** countries. Samsung Electronics generated most of its revenue in the Americas and Europe in 2024. Major divisions Samsung Electronics has four major divisions including digital media, semiconductor, telecommunication network, and LCD digital appliances. The company provides electronic components such as lithium-ion batteries and semiconductors to companies like Sony and Apple. Samsung is become especially known for some of its consumer products such as mobile devices as well as their home entertainment systems. Since 2002, the company has been one of the largest producers of LCD panels as well as one of the largest television manufacturers in the world. As of 2024, Samsung held almost ** percent of the global TV market share. In that same year, Samsung's smartphone shipments amounted to over *** million units, ranking second globally behind only Apple.

As of the first quarter of 2025, Samsung Electronics’ mobile experience (MX) was its biggest revenue generator, bringing in approximately ** billion U.S. dollars. Other key segments are the company’s mobile communications and display panel businesses which also contributed significantly to total revenue. Samsung Samsung, perhaps best known for its consumer electronics division, owns business ventures that span across a large range of industries. Controlling some of the top companies operating in every sector from electronics to insurances to shipbuilding, Samsung ranks among the largest conglomerates in the world in terms of market value. The company employs hundreds of thousands of workers and accounts for a significant portion of South Korea’s GDP, meaning that Samsung is massively influential within its home country. Mobile Communications segment The cornerstone of Samsung’s success is its mobile communications segment, which includes various lines of smartphones and wearables as well as the company’s library of application software such as Samsung Pay. The company’s Samsung Galaxy line is among the most popular in the world and contributes towards making Samsung one of the largest smartphone brands in the world in terms of worldwide shipments.

The levels of research & development expenditure at Samsung Electronics between 2009 and 2024 has been steadily increasing in recent years. In 2024, total spending on research and development at Samsung Electronics amounted to approximately 29 billion U.S. dollars, The highest-ever recorded R&D expenditure by the Korean giant. Samsung R&D spending Samsung, a global leader in semiconductors, telecommunications and digital media technologies, spent nearly 21 billion U.S. dollars on research and development in 2023. This amount is considerably higher than the 2009 figure, when Samsung spent around seven billion U.S. dollars on research and development. Their expenditure has tripled. Samsung’s investment manifests, for example, in the more than six thousand U.S. patents. Investment in R&D Software and computer services companies, and technology hardware and equipment companies tend to invest heavily in research and development. In the last few years, companies from these two industrial sectors spent, on average, about seven to nine percent of their total revenue on R&D.

非人寿保险：员工数量：三星在03-01-2018达5,805.000人，相较于12-01-2017的5,734.000人有所增长。非人寿保险：员工数量：三星数据按月更新，03-01-2001至03-01-2018期间平均值为5,406.500人，共198份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于10-01-2016，达6,051.000人，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-2002，为3,712.000人。CEIC提供的非人寿保险：员工数量：三星数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于손해보험협회，数据归类于Global Database的韩国 – 表 RG.KR026：非人寿保险：员工数量。

The total number of Apple employees dramatically increased from 2005 through to 2024. As of FY 2024, the total number of employees had reached around *** thousand (only counting full-time equivalent), up from *** thousand recorded in the previous year. The fiscal year end of the company is September, 30th. Apple Corporation – additional information Founded in 1976, Apple is an American multinational corporation that specializes in computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and online services. The company initially focused on the production of consumer and business computers. Over the years it has included a more diverse line of electronic products. In 2027, Apple was the world’s 7th largest company and the world’s largest information technology company. Even though Apple was the most valuable brand in the world in 2024, it was not among the world’s largest companies in terms of staff. Other information technology companies, such as Samsung Electronics or IBM, had employed a larger number of people. However, the revenue per employee of Apple turned out to be the highest among leading technology companies. Apple products Apple’s current product line ranges across personal computers, tablet computers, digital music players and smartphones. The iPhone, a line of smartphones designed and produced by Apple, has revolutionized the smartphone industry with its screen-centric design and touch controls. Its global sales have skyrocketed since its introduction in 2007, with about *** million units sold in 2023. According to the quarterly reports by Apple, the iPhone has generated around half of Apple’s revenue between 2013 and 2024. The iPad, a line of tablet computers, counts as one of the very first players in the global tablet industry. Even though the global market share of the iPad has dropped since 2012, it still dominated the tablet market with a ** percent share as of the second quarter of 2024.

This is the public release of the Samsung Open Mean Opinion Scores (SOMOS) dataset for the evaluation of neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, which consists of audio files generated with a public domain voice from trained TTS models based on bibliography, and numbers assigned to each audio as quality (naturalness) evaluations by several crowdsourced listeners.DescriptionThe SOMOS dataset contains 20,000 synthetic utterances (wavs), 100 natural utterances and 374,955 naturalness evaluations (human-assigned scores in the range 1-5). The synthetic utterances are single-speaker, generated by training several Tacotron-like acoustic models and an LPCNet vocoder on the LJ Speech voice public dataset. 2,000 text sentences were synthesized, selected from Blizzard Challenge texts of years 2007-2016, the LJ Speech corpus as well as Wikipedia and general domain data from the Internet.Naturalness evaluations were collected via crowdsourcing a listening test on Amazon Mechanical Turk in the US, GB and CA locales. The records of listening test participants (workers) are fully anonymized. Statistics on the reliability of the scores assigned by the workers are also included, generated through processing the scores and validation controls per submission page.

To listen to audio samples of the dataset, please see our Github page.

The dataset release comes with a carefully designed train-validation-test split (70%-15%-15%) with unseen systems, listeners and texts, which can be used for experimentation on MOS prediction.

This version also contains the necessary resources to obtain the transcripts corresponding to all dataset audios.

Terms of use

The dataset may be used for research purposes only, for non-commercial purposes only, and may be distributed with the same terms.

Every time you produce research that has used this dataset, please cite the dataset appropriately.

Cite as:

@inproceedings{maniati22_interspeech, author={Georgia Maniati and Alexandra Vioni and Nikolaos Ellinas and Karolos Nikitaras and Konstantinos Klapsas and June Sig Sung and Gunu Jho and Aimilios Chalamandaris and Pirros Tsiakoulis}, title={{SOMOS: The Samsung Open MOS Dataset for the Evaluation of Neural Text-to-Speech Synthesis}}, year=2022, booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2022}, pages={2388--2392}, doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10922} }

References of resources & models used

Voice & synthesized texts:K. Ito and L. Johnson, “The LJ Speech Dataset,” https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset/, 2017.

Vocoder:J.-M. Valin and J. Skoglund, “LPCNet: Improving neural speech synthesis through linear prediction,” in Proc. ICASSP, 2019.R. Vipperla, S. Park, K. Choo, S. Ishtiaq, K. Min, S. Bhattacharya, A. Mehrotra, A. G. C. P. Ramos, and N. D. Lane, “Bunched lpcnet: Vocoder for low-cost neural text-to-speech systems,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2020.

Acoustic models:N. Ellinas, G. Vamvoukakis, K. Markopoulos, A. Chalamandaris, G. Maniati, P. Kakoulidis, S. Raptis, J. S. Sung, H. Park, and P. Tsiakoulis, “High quality streaming speech synthesis with low, sentence-length-independent latency,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2020.Y. Wang, R. Skerry-Ryan, D. Stanton, Y. Wu, R. J. Weiss, N. Jaitly, Z. Yang, Y. Xiao, Z. Chen, S. Bengio et al., “Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2017.J. Shen, R. Pang, R. J. Weiss, M. Schuster, N. Jaitly, Z. Yang, Z. Chen, Y. Zhang, Y. Wang, R. Skerrv-Ryan et al., “Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning Wavenet on MEL Spectrogram Predictions,” in Proc. ICASSP, 2018.J. Shen, Y. Jia, M. Chrzanowski, Y. Zhang, I. Elias, H. Zen, and Y. Wu, “Non-Attentive Tacotron: Robust and Controllable Neural TTS Synthesis Including Unsupervised Duration Modeling,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04301, 2020.M. Honnibal and M. Johnson, “An Improved Non-monotonic Transition System for Dependency Parsing,” in Proc. EMNLP, 2015.M. Dominguez, P. L. Rohrer, and J. Soler-Company, “PyToBI: A Toolkit for ToBI Labeling Under Python,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2019.Y. Zou, S. Liu, X. Yin, H. Lin, C. Wang, H. Zhang, and Z. Ma, “Fine-grained prosody modeling in neural speech synthesis using ToBI representation,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2021.K. Klapsas, N. Ellinas, J. S. Sung, H. Park, and S. Raptis, “WordLevel Style Control for Expressive, Non-attentive Speech Synthesis,” in Proc. SPECOM, 2021.T. Raitio, R. Rasipuram, and D. Castellani, “Controllable neural text-to-speech synthesis using intuitive prosodic features,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2020.

Synthesized texts from the Blizzard Challenges 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016:M. Fraser and S. King, "The Blizzard Challenge 2007," in Proc. SSW6, 2007.V. Karaiskos, S. King, R. A. Clark, and C. Mayo, "The Blizzard Challenge 2008," in Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop, 2008.A. W. Black, S. King, and K. Tokuda, "The Blizzard Challenge 2009," in Proc. Blizzard Challenge, 2009.S. King and V. Karaiskos, "The Blizzard Challenge 2010," 2010.S. King and V. Karaiskos, "The Blizzard Challenge 2011," 2011.S. King and V. Karaiskos, "The Blizzard Challenge 2012," 2012.S. King and V. Karaiskos, "The Blizzard Challenge 2013," 2013.S. King and V. Karaiskos, "The Blizzard Challenge 2016," 2016.

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In the third quarter of 2024, Samsung Electronics recorded revenues of around ** trillion South Korean won, which amounted to approximately ** billion U.S. dollars. The South Korean tech giant’s digital experience segment accounted for almost ** billion U.S. dollars of this figure, while its semiconductor business netted a further * billion. Consumer electronics Over the past few decades, mobile electronic devices have become an increasingly integral part of the daily lives of people across the globe, with consumer expenditures expected to exceed *** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. As one of the world’s leading vendors of smartphones, televisions, tablets, wearables, and consumer electronics as a whole, Samsung is well positioned to take advantage of this trend. In addition to producing products to sell under the Samsung brand, the company also manufactures electronic components to be sold to other vendors, most notably displays and semiconductors. SamsungSamsung, perhaps best known for its consumer electronics division, owns business ventures that span across a large range of industries. Controlling some of the top companies operating in every sector from electronics to insurances to shipbuilding, Samsung ranks among the largest conglomerates in the world in terms of market value. The company employs hundreds of thousands of workers and accounts for a significant portion of South Korea’s GDP, meaning that Samsung is massively influential within its home country and throughout the world.

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In 2024, Samsung Electronics was the largest company in South Korea based on revenue, generating over 198 billion U.S. dollars and ranking 31st on the Fortune Global 500 list. Following Samsung was Hyundai Motor, which reported a revenue of approximately 124.6 billion U.S. dollars. That year, a total of 15 South Korean companies were included in the Fortune Global 500 rankings.

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Smartphone users in India – additional information

The number of smartphone users worldwide is projected to amount to nearly 7.7 billion by 2027. It is expected that, by 2022, more than two third of the total global population will use a smartphone. Due to China’s rapid growth, the country has become a distant leader in the smartphone market, leaving the U.S., which previously held the top position, far behind. Smartphone users in China already accounted for 72 percent of the country’s population in 2022. By 2028, more than 83 percent of the population in China is projected to use a smartphone. For 2022, the number of smartphone users in China amounted to nearly 1.04 billion.

India, the second most populous country in the world, passed the United States in number of smartphone users in 2017. Around 223 million people in the U.S. use a smartphone by 2017, compared to 340 million in India. Despite this increase in volume, the U.S. still has a higher smartphone penetration rate than India. The smartphone penetration rate in India reached close to 71 percent by 2023, a penetration rate that the U.S. already reached in 2019. Samsung was the leading smartphone vendor in India in 2022, followed by Xiaomi and Vivo.

In 2025, according to the source's ranking, Apple was the most valuable brand in the world. The technology giant had an estimated brand value of about 574.5 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Microsoft that was worth 461.1 billion dollars. The global dominance of technology companies   A closer look at the 2024 brand ranking reveals that U.S. tech brands once again dominated the top-10 list. As a case in point, the business technology and services platforms industry was the highest-valued sector worldwide among the 100 most valuable brands in 2023. Meanwhile, consumer technology and services platforms ranked second on the list. The importance of brand value Brand value, not to be mistaken with brand equity, is a term used in the marketing industry to describe the value of brands. The term is based on the implication that products with a well-known brand name can generate more money than those with a less well-known name. Strong brands enhance business performance primarily through their influence on three key stakeholder groups: customers, employees, and investors. They influence customer choice and create loyalty; attract, retain, and motivate talent; and lower the cost of financing for the companies.

In 2023, Nokia generated 19.22 billion euros in net sales, a decrease on the 22.26 billion generated the previous year. Nokia's history Founded in 1865, Nokia is a Finnish communications and information technology company. Over the years, Nokia has ventured into different markets: Nokia emerged as a global leader in the mobile market in the early days of the mobile and smartphone era. The company also played a key role in the development of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nokia was once the leading mobile phone vendor. However, due to slow adaptation to newer smartphone technologies, Nokia gradually lost its market-leading position to rivals like Samsung and Apple and its mobile business began to lose money. Nokia’s business evolution After the sale of its mobile devices division, Nokia focused on the data networking services and telecommunications equipment business through its subsidiary Nokia Networks. As of 2020, Nokia's Networks Business is the most revenue-generating business segment of Nokia. The company has also been involved in cloud computing and mapping applications. As one of the leading telecom infrastructure companies, Nokia faces competition from Huawei, Cisco, Ericsson, and Qualcomm.