ELRA - ELRA-U-S 0142 : Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-S 0142

Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank

This Saudi accented Arabic telephone speech database was collected during 2002 and 2003.

- Number of speakers: 1033 native speakers (51% males, 49% females).
- Telephone network: 70% mobile, 30% fixed-line network.
- Recording environment for mobile network: quiet (35%), noisy (35%), moving vehicle (30%).
- Recording environment for fixed-line network: quiet (75%), noisy (25%).
- Material: each speaker read 59 prompts with numbers, phonetically rich words, sentences and pronunciation of the Arabic and English alphabets.
- Duration: 96 hours
- Average duration per speaker: 5.60 minutes.

The database was digitized at 8,000 Hz sampling rate with A/D conversion precision of 8 bits.

It was developed to support for speaker verification systems development.

Applications

	Applications possible : Speaker identification#Speaker verification
application Area : Research

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speech corpus
Language(s) : Arabic
Source Channel : Telephone
Speech Acquisition Mode : Acoustic
Transcription Entries : Orthographic
Annotation Granularity : Word
Annotation level : Phonetic