OrienTel Egypt MCA (Modern Colloquial Arabic) database

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title
  • OrienTel Egypt MCA (Modern Colloquial Arabic) database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • speech database
subject.linguisticField
  • phonetics
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Telephone
    The OrienTel Egypt MCA (Modern Colloquial Arabic) database comprises 750 Egyptian speakers (398 males, 352 females) recorded over the Egyptian fixed and mobile telephone network. This database is partitioned into 1 CD and 1 DVD. The speech databases made within the OrienTel project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the OrienTel format and content specifications.

    Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

    Each speaker uttered the following items:
    • 1 isolated single digit
    • 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits
    • 5 connected digits : 1 prompt sheet number (6 digits), 1 telephone number (6-15 digits), 1 credit card number (14-16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits), 1 spontaneous phone number
    • 2 currency money amounts
    • 1 natural number
    • 4 dates : 1 spontaneous (date or year of birth), 1 prompted date, 1 relative or general date expression, 1 prompted date phrase (Islamic calendar)
    • 2 time phrases : 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase (word style)
    • 3 spelled words : 1 spontaneous (own forename), 1 city name, 1 real word for coverage
    • 5 directory assistance utterances : 1 spontaneous, own forename, 1 city of childhood (spontaneous), 1 frequent city name, 1 frequent company name, 1 common forename and surname
    • 2 yes/no questions : 1 predominantly ”yes” question, 1 predominantly ”no” question
    • 6 application keywords/keyphrases
    • 1 word spotting phrase using embedded application words
    • 4 phonetically rich words
    • 9 phonetically rich sentences
    • 3 spontaneous items (for control)

    The following age distribution has been obtained: 379 speakers are between 16 and 30, 291 speakers are between 31 and 45, 80 speakers are between 46 and 60.

    A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
description.inputDevice
  • fixed_line_telephone
  • mobile_phone
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
  • spontaneous_speech date or year of birth, own forename, 1 city of childhood etc.
description.speechMode
  • monologue
  • dialogue yes/no questions
description.samplingRate
  • 8 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter An ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information
  • analysis_parameter A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA
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
  • dialect Egyptian Arabic
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult 379 speakers are between 16 and 30, 291 speakers are between 31 and 45, 80 speakers are between 46 and 60.
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 398
  • number_of_female_speakers 352
  • number_of_total_speakers 750
date.created
date.issued
  • 2006-08-28
date.modified
  • 2007-02-22
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies
type.style
  • speech
type.form
  • fixed
type.sentence
  • isolated_words
  • short
type.annotation
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 750 Egyptian speakers (398 males, 352 females)
  • 1 CD and 1 DVD
format.medium
  • CD-ROM
  • DVD
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 036-535-444-454-5
source
language
  • Egyptian Arabic
  • Arabic
language.area
  • Africa
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use