LDC Catalog

Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech

Item Name:

Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech

Authors:

Mohamed Maamouri (Project head), Tim Buckwalter, David Graff, Hubert Jin

ISBN:

telephone conversations

Project(s):

GALE

Language(s):

Levantine Arabic, North Levantine Arabic, South Levantine Arabic

Reduced-License Fee:

US$500.00

Extra-Copy Fee:

US$200.00

Non-member License:

yes

Online documentation:

yes

Licensing Instructions:

Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members

Citation:

Mohamed Maamouri (Project head), et al.
2007
Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech
Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction

Levantine Arabic is spoken along the western Mediterranean coast from Anatolia to the Sinai Peninsula and encompasses the local dialects of Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. There are two distinct varieties: Northern, centered around Syria and Lebanon; and Southern, spoken in Jordan and Palestine. Northern Levantine Arabic speakers include approximately 8.8 million speakers in Syria and 6 million speakers in Lebanon. Southern Levantine Arabic speakers include approximately 3.5 million speakers in Jordan, 1.6 million speakers in Palestine and nearly one million speakers in Israel.

Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech contains 279 telephone conversations totaling 45 hours of speech. The majority of the speakers are from Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.

Speaker Distribution by Region
Jordan	60%
Palestine	15%
Lebanon	15%
Syria	8%
other	2%

Data

The conversations in this corpus are a subset of the conversations in Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech, LDC2006S29. The individual audio files are in NIST Sphere format. The corresponding transcripts may be found in Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech, Transcripts, LDC2007T04.

Samples

For an example of the speech data in this corpus, please listen to this audio sample in wav format.

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