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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:**
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### 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.