Phonetically rich and balanced arabic speech corpus: An overview

• Main Authors: Abushariah, Mohammad A. M., Ainon, Raja N., Zainuddin, Roziati, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Elshafei, Moustafa
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/5883/1/05556832.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/5883/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556832

Lack of spoken and written training data is one o f the main issues encountered by Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) researchers. Almost all written and spoken corpora are not readily available to the public and many of them can only be obtained by purchasing from the Linguistic Data Consort...