| Item Name: | Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech |
| Authors: | Mohamed Maamouri (project head), Tim Buckwalter, David Graff, and Hubert Jin |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2006S29 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-377-1 |
| Release Date: | Feb 15, 2006 |
| Data Type: | speech |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 Hz |
| Sampling Format: | 2-channel ulaw |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Project(s): | EARS |
| Application(s): | language modeling, language teaching, machine learning, machine translation |
| Language(s): | Levantine Arabic, North Levantine Arabic, South Levantine Arabic |
| Language ID(s): | AJP, APC |
| Distribution: | 3 DVD |
| Member fee: | $0 for 2006 members |
| Non-member Fee: | US $4000.00 |
| Reduced-License Fee: | US $2000.00 |
| Extra-Copy Fee: | US $600.00 |
| Non-member License: | yes |
| Online documentation: | yes |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members |
| Citation: | Mohamed Maamouri (project head), et al. 2006 Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia |
IntroductionThis file contains documentation on the Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2006S29 and ISBN 1-58563-377-1. The transcriptions for this recorded speech may be found in LDC2006T07. This release contains 1,660 calls totalling approximately 250 hours of telephone conversation in Levantine Arabic. These calls were collected between 2003 and 2005. DataThis corpus is the combination of four former training data sets: LDC2004E21 and LDC2004E22, LDC2004E65 and LDC2004E66, LDC2005S07 and LDC2005T03 and LDC2005S14 (Speech and Transcripts). More than half of the speakers are Lebanese, the others are Jordanian, Palestinian, and Syrian. The table below shows the distribution of the speakers' national origin:
SamplesFor an example of this corpus, please listen to this audio sample in sphere format. Content CopyrightPortions © 2003-2006 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | |
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