Phonetically rich and balanced text and speech corpora for Arabic language
This paper describes the preparation, recording, analyzing, and evaluation of a new speech corpus for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The speech corpus contains a total of 415 sentences recorded by 40 (20 male and 20 female) Arabic native speakers from 11 different Arab countries representing three...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/10572/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10572/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10572/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10572/4/Phonetically_rich_Irep_ID10572.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper describes the preparation, recording, analyzing, and evaluation
of a new speech corpus for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The speech corpus
contains a total of 415 sentences recorded by 40 (20 male and 20 female) Arabic
native speakers from 11 different Arab countries representing three major regions
(Levant, Gulf, and Africa). Three hundred and sixty seven sentences are considered as
phonetically rich and balanced, which are used for training Arabic Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) systems. The rich characteristic is in the sense that it must contain
all phonemes of Arabic language, whereas the balanced characteristic is in the sense
that it must preserve the phonetic distribution of Arabic language. The remaining 48
sentences are created for |
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