Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech

registration: 2007/09/11 04:03:39, last modified: 2016/08/17 13:26:29
title
  • Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • developer Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
subject
  • speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • *Introduction*

    This database contains 982 Levantine Arabic speakers taking part in spontaneous telephone conversations in Colloquial Levantine Arabic. A total of 985 conversation sides are provided (there are three speakers who each appear in two disctinct conversations). The average duration per side is between 5 and 6 minutes.

    This corpus was collected and transcribed in 2004 by Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.

    *Samples*

    For an example of the data into this corpus, please listen to this audio sample (wav format).
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • Non-member US$400.00
  • Member free
  • Reduced-License US$200.00
  • Extra Copy US$200.00
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • fixed_line_telephone
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • dialogue
description.samplingRate
  • 8 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter speaker information (region, age, gender)
  • analysis_parameter call information (phone type, topic and length of conversation)
publisher
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_total_speakers 982
date.created
date.issued
  • 2007-01-22
date.modified
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
  • interactive_discourse
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • speech dialogue
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • plain
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 8 bit a-law
  • 8000 Hz
  • A total of 985 conversation
  • average duration per side is between 5 and 6 minutes
  • Corpus size: 2831155 KB
format.medium
  • DVD
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 509-623-192-870-1
source
  • telephone
language
  • South Levantine Arabic
  • North Levantine Arabic
language.area
  • Asia
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
  • Thus, in speaker recognition the NIST evaluations have focused on text-independent recognition using conversational telephone speech.
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights