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- crowdsourced
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- crowdsourced
language:
- ar
license:
- cc-by-nc-4.0
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pretty_name: 'MASC'
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---
# Dataset Card for MASC: MASSIVE ARABIC SPEECH CORPUS
## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
- [Source Data](#source-data)
- [Annotations](#annotations)
- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
- [Contributions](#contributions)
## Dataset Description
- **Homepage:** https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/masc-massive-arabic-speech-corpus
- **Repository:**
- **Paper:** https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/e1qb-jv46
- **Leaderboard:**
- **Point of Contact:**
### Dataset Summary
This corpus is a dataset that contains 1,000 hours of speech sampled at 16~kHz and crawled from over 700 YouTube channels. MASC is multi-regional, multi-genre, and multi-dialect dataset that is intended to advance the research and development of Arabic speech technology with the special emphasis on Arabic speech recognition
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
[More Information Needed]
### Languages
Multi-dialect Arabic
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
[More Information Needed]
### Data Fields
#### masc_dev
- speech
- sampling_rate
- target_text (label)
### Data Splits
#### masc_dev
- train: 100
- test: 40
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
[More Information Needed]
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
[More Information Needed]
#### Who are the source language producers?
[More Information Needed]
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
[More Information Needed]
#### Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed]
### Personal and Sensitive Information
[More Information Needed]
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
[More Information Needed]
### Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed]
### Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed]
## Additional Information
Note: this is a small development set for testing.
### Dataset Curators
[More Information Needed]
### Licensing Information
CC 4.0
### Citation Information
[More Information Needed]
### Contributions
Mohammad Al-Fetyani, Muhammad Al-Barham, Gheith Abandah, Adham Alsharkawi, Maha Dawas, August 18, 2021, "MASC: Massive Arabic Speech Corpus", IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/e1qb-jv46.