Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech
| Item Name: | Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech |
| Author(s): | Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2007S01 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-406-9 |
| ISLRN: | 509-623-192-870-1 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/77zm-gw29 |
| Release Date: | January 22, 2007 |
| Member Year(s): | 2007 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | alaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Language(s): | North Levantine Arabic, South Levantine Arabic |
| Language ID(s): | apc, ajp |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2007S01 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, and Australia. Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech LDC2007S01. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2007. |
| Related Works: | View |
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).