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Arabic Broadcast News Speech

Item Name: Arabic Broadcast News Speech
Authors: Mohamed Maamouri, David Graff, Christopher Cieri,
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2006S46
ISBN: 1-58563-419-0
Release Date: Dec 19, 2006
Data Type: speech
Sample Rate: 16000 Hz
Sampling Format: pcm
Data Source(s): broadcast news
Application(s): machine learning, machine translation
Language(s): Modern Standard Arabic
Language ID(s): arb
Distribution: 1 DVD
Member fee: $0 for 2006 members
Non-member Fee: US $700.00
Reduced-License Fee: US $350.00
Extra-Copy Fee: US $200.00
Non-member License: yes
Online documentation: yes
Licensing Instructions: Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation: Mohamed Maamouri, David Graff, Christopher Cieri,
2006
Arabic Broadcast News Speech
Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction

This data set consists of eight audio files recorded by the Linguistic Data Consortium from Voice of America satellite radio news broadcasts in Arabic. The recordings were made at time of transmission between June 2000 and January 2001. This work was sponsored in part by National Science Foundation Grant No. IIS-9982201.

Samples

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

Content Copyright

Portions © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania


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