ELRA - ELRA-SD157 : Colloquial Gulf Arabic

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-SD157

Colloquial Gulf Arabic - Speech Database

35 minutes of audio per speaker per channel, 280 utterances per speaker.
The database comprises 150 speakers from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia (75 from each). They are all native speakers of Colloquial Gulf Arabic (50% male / 50% female).

Technical details:
- Desktop recording
- Recorded at 16kHz, linear PCM
- 4 channels:
- 1 close head-set microphone
- 2 mid-distance microphones (different types)
- 1 mid-distance array microphone

Each speaker read 280 utterances (approximately 30 minutes) organised as follows:
- 30 Person names (first name and family name) from a set of 150
- 10 single Isolated digits 0-9
- 10 8-digit sequences (randomly generated)
- 200 Phonetically balanced sentences
- 30 10-word phonetically balanced word strings

The audio material was transcribed (fully vowelised) and tagged using conventions derived from the SpeechDAT model.
The phonemic representation is in SAMPA and annotations are in SAM file format.

Applications

	Applications possible : Speech recognition#Automatic speech recognition

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speech corpus
Language(s) : Arabic
Recording Channels : 4
Source Channel : Microphone