This Speech corpus has been developed as part of PhD work carried out by Nawar Halabi at the University of Southampton. The corpus was recorded in south Levantine Arabic (Damascian accent) using a professional studio. Synthesized speech as an output using this corpus has produced a high quality, natural voice.
It is released here under the creative commons license specified below. In case further rights are required, or you require consultancy for building Arabic speech corpora, please contact Nawar Halabi by email. Thank you for your interest.
Developing and hosting the corpus costs time and money. You are welcome to make a contribution if you think we deserve it :)
More documentation will be added in the future. Please refer to Nawar Halabi's PhD Thesis for more details. Please note that the apostrophe which follows some vowel phonemes in the corpus indicates that the vowel is in a stressed syllable. Feel free to visit the Arabic Speech Corpus Wikipedia page for more information about the corpus.
https://github.com/nawarhalabi/festival-tts-arabic-voices-docker In this repo there is a Docker image for this TTS server which can run on most platforms easily
Thank you very much to Taha Zerrouki, Ahmad Barqawi, Karim Hemina and Oussama Hemina for their work to produce this TTS:
Thank you to Ali Hamdi, Ibrahim Tuffaha, Baraa' Al-Jawarneh and Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub for their work on Shakkelha which is the best diacritiser as far as I know. https://github.com/AliOsm/shakkelha
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Arabic Speech Corpus by Nawar Halabi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at www.arabicspeechcorpus.com.
Developing and hosting the corpus costs time and money. You are welcome to make a contribution if you think we deserve it :)