Gulf Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech

<h3>Introduction</h3> <p> This database contains 975 Gulf Arabic speakers taking part in spontaneous telephone conversations in Colloquial Gulf Arabic. A total of 976 conversation sides are provided (one speaker appears on two distinct calls). The average duration per side is about 5.7 minutes.</p> <p>This corpus was collected and transcribed in 2004 by Appen Pty Ltd (Appen), Sydney, Australia.</p> <h3>Data</h3> <p>The single-channel files represent just one side of a normal conversation. The "devtest" set represents a relatively balanced (representative) sample drawn from the total pool of collected calls, based on a test-set selection process applied by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and based on demographic, phone and audit information as provided by Appen.</p> <h3>Samples</h3> <p> For an example of the data contained in this corpus, please listen to this <a href="./desc/addenda/LDC2006S43.wav" rel="nofollow">audio sample(wav)</a>. </p> </br>
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<h3>简介</h3> <p> 本数据库收录了975名使用海湾阿拉伯口语（Colloquial Gulf Arabic）的受访者参与的自发电话对话语料。本次共提供976条通话单边样本（其中1名受访者参与了两次独立通话），单条样本的平均时长约为5.7分钟。</p> <p>该语料库于2004年由澳大利亚悉尼的Appen Pty Ltd（简称Appen）完成采集与转写工作。</p> <h3>数据</h3> <p>单声道音频文件仅对应单次正常对话的单边通话内容。其中的“devtest”集合是从全部采集通话池中抽取的均衡代表性样本，其筛选流程遵循美国国家标准与技术研究院（National Institute of Standards and Technology，NIST）制定的测试集选择规则，并结合了Appen提供的人口统计、通话记录及审核信息。</p> <h3>示例样本</h3> <p> 如需查看本语料库的样本示例，请收听此<a href="./desc/addenda/LDC2006S43.wav" rel="nofollow">音频样本（wav格式）</a>。 </br>
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