L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech

<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p>L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech was developed by <a href="http://ksu.edu.sa/en/">King Saud University</a>&nbsp;(KSU) and contains approximately six hours of Modern Standard Arabic read speech from 80 subjects, along with transcripts and speaker metadata.</p>
<h3>Data</h3>
<p>The speech data was collected in 2022 from 40 native and 40 non-native speakers. Native speakers were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Palestine. They provided audio recordings through the crowd sourcing platform&nbsp;<a href="https://khamsat.com/">Khamsat</a>. Non-native speakers were Central and West African students enrolled in KSU's Arabic Linguistics Institute; they provided speech recordings on site. All subjects read a series of ten sentences, repeating each sentence multiple times.</p>
<p>Audio is presented as 16-bit 16 kHz wav files. Transcript files in UTF-8 plain text, speaker metadata, and the Arabic sentences with transliteration, English translation and IPA transcription are also included in the documentation accompanying this release.</p>
<h3>Samples</h3>
<p>Please view these samples:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2024S11.wav">Native speaker (wav)</a></li>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2024S11.nn.wav">Non-native speaker (wav)</a></li>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2024S11.txt">Transcript (txt)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>None at this time.</p>
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<h3>引言</h3><p>L2-KSU 阿拉伯语母语者与非母语者语音数据集由<a href="http://ksu.edu.sa/en/">沙特国王大学（King Saud University，简称KSU）</a>开发，包含来自80名受试者的约6小时现代标准阿拉伯语朗读语音数据，同时附带转录文本与说话者元数据。</p><h3>数据</h3><p>该语音数据于2022年采集自40名母语者与40名非母语者。母语者来自沙特阿拉伯、埃及与巴勒斯坦，通过众包平台<a href="https://khamsat.com/">Khamsat</a>提交了音频录音。非母语者为就读于沙特国王大学阿拉伯语言学学院的中非与西非学生，他们在现场完成语音录制。所有受试者均朗读一组共10个句子，并对每个句子进行多次重复录制。</p><p>音频采用16位、16kHz采样率的WAV格式存储。本发布包附带的文档中还包含UTF-8纯文本转录文件、说话者元数据，以及带有音译、英文译文与国际音标（International Phonetic Alphabet，简称IPA）标注的阿拉伯语句子文本。</p><h3>样本</h3><p>请查看以下示例样本：</p><ul><li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2024S11.wav">母语者语音（WAV格式）</a></li><li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2024S11.nn.wav">非母语者语音（WAV格式）</a></li><li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2024S11.txt">转录文本（TXT格式）</a></li></ul><h3>更新说明</h3><p>目前暂无更新。</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech是由沙特国王大学开发的阿拉伯语语音数据集，发布于2024年。它包含约6小时的现代标准阿拉伯语朗读语音，来自80名说话者（40名母语者和40名非母语者），数据采集于2022年，包括音频、转录文本和说话者元数据。该数据集适用于说话人识别和语音识别等应用，特点是涵盖了多样化的母语和非母语背景，并提供了详细的句子翻译和音标信息。