annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
languages:
- ar
licenses:
- cc-by-4-0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- other
task_ids:
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paperswithcode_id: arabic-speech-corpus
Dataset Card for Arabic Speech Corpus
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: Arabic Speech Corpus
- Repository: [Needs More Information]
- Paper: Modern standard Arabic phonetics for speech synthesis
- Leaderboard: [Paperswithcode Leaderboard][Needs More Information]
- Point of Contact: Nawar Halabi
Dataset Summary
This Speech corpus has been developed as part of PhD work carried out by Nawar Halabi at the University of Southampton. The corpus was recorded in south Levantine Arabic (Damascian accent) using a professional studio. Synthesized speech as an output using this corpus has produced a high quality, natural voice.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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Languages
The audio is in Arabic.
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
A typical data point comprises the path to the audio file, usually called file and its transcription, called text.
An example from the dataset is:
{
'file': '/Users/username/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/baebe85e2cb67579f6f88e7117a87888c1ace390f4f14cb6c3e585c517ad9db0/arabic-speech-corpus/wav/ARA NORM 0002.wav',
'orthographic': 'waraj~aHa Alt~aqoriyru Al~a*iy >aEad~ahu maEohadu >aboHaA^i haDabapi Alt~ibiti fiy Alo>akaAdiymiy~api AlS~iyniy~api liloEuluwmi - >ano tasotamir~a darajaAtu AloHaraArapi wamusotawayaAtu Alr~uTuwbapi fiy Alo<irotifaAEi TawaAla ha*aA Aloqarono',
'phonetic': "sil w a r a' jj A H a tt A q r ii0' r u0 ll a * i0 < a E a' dd a h u0 m a' E h a d u0 < a b H aa' ^ i0 h A D A' b a t i0 tt i1' b t i0 f i0 l < a k aa d ii0 m ii0' y a t i0 SS II0 n ii0' y a t i0 l u0 l E u0 l uu0' m i0 sil < a' n t a s t a m i0' rr a d a r a j aa' t u0 l H a r aa' r a t i0 w a m u0 s t a w a y aa' t u0 rr U0 T UU0' b a t i0 f i0 l Ah i0 r t i0 f aa' E i0 T A' w A l a h aa' * a l q A' r n sil",
'text': '\ufeffwaraj~aHa Alt~aqoriyru Al~aTHiy >aEad~ahu maEohadu >aboHaA^i haDabapi Alt~ibiti fiy Alo>akaAdiymiy~api AlS~iyniy~api liloEuluwmi - >ano tasotamir~a darajaAtu AloHaraArapi wamusotawayaAtu Alr~uTuwbapi fiy Alo<irotifaAEi TawaAla haTHaA Aloqarono'
}
Data Fields
- file: A path to the downloaded audio file in .wav format.
- text: the transcription of the audio file.
- phonetic: the transcription in phonentics format.
- orthographic: the transcriptions written in orthographic format.
Data Splits
| Train | Test | |
|---|---|---|
| dataset | 1813 | 100 |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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Who are the source language producers?
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Annotations
Annotation process
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Who are the annotators?
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Personal and Sensitive Information
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Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
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Discussion of Biases
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Other Known Limitations
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
The corpus was recorded in south Levantine Arabic (Damascian accent) using a professional studio by Nawar Halabi.
Licensing Information
CC BY 4.0
Citation Information
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Contributions
Thanks to @zaidalyafeai for adding this dataset.