OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0222

Metadata
Title:		OrienTel Egypt MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) database
Access Rights:		Rights available for: nonCommercialUse, commercialUse
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2006-08-28
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2006-08-28
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2007-02-22
Description:		The OrienTel Egypt MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) database comprises 500 Egyptian speakers (254 males, 246 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•2 sequences of 5 isolated digits•7 connected digits : 1 prompt sheet number (6 digits), 6 strings of 4 digits in written format•2 currency money amounts•2 natural numbers•3 dates : 1 prompted date, 1 relative or general date expression, 1 prompted date phrase (Islamic calendar)•1 time phrase•2 spelled words : string of 4 letter sequences•3 directory assistance utterances : 1 frequent city name, 1 frequent company name, 1 personal name ( first name and family name)•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•4 spontaneous items (for control)The following age distribution has been obtained: 329 speakers are between 16 and 30, 121 speakers are between 31 and 45, 50 speakers are between 46 and 60.A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0222
		ISLRN: 830-378-677-910-7
Identifier (URI):		https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0222/
Language:		Arabic
Language (ISO639):		ara
Medium:		Not specified
Publisher:		ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
Type (DCMI):		Sound
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/catalogue.elra.info
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0222
DateStamp:		2006-08-28
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2006. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		dcmi_Sound iso639_ara olac_primary_text