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Arabic Speech Corpus (ASC) — Nawar Halabi / University of Southampton

Arabic(ara)SpeechTTS/ASRWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Arabic (ara)
Modality
Speech
Domain
General
Size
~3.7
Institution
Nawar Halabi (University of Southampton / MicroLinkPC)
Last Updated
20 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Open with restrictions — attribution required; some commercial or derivative use limited.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

35 of 46 fields stated

Every column the registry tracks. Values marked derivedwere filled by a rule or read from the source's text rather than stated in its metadata; the rule or the quoted sentence is shown under the value.

Registry columns (25/27)

iso code
ara
Dataset name
Arabic Speech Corpus (ASC) — Nawar Halabi / University of Southampton
Modality
Speech
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/halabi2016/arabic_speech_corpus
NLP Task
TTS/ASR
Domain
General
Data Format
Not stated
Size Metric
Hours
Size Value
~3.7
License
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2016
Creator/Author(s)
Nawar Halabi (University of Southampton / MicroLinkPC)
Funder/Partner
Other
Dialect Coverage
MSA (South Levantine)
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
1
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
Yes
PII Risk
Low
Consent Verified
Yes
Verified By
Agboola Blessing
Date Indexed
2026-05-20
Notes / Flags
First open-source Arabic speech corpus for TTS synthesis. Recorded in studio (Damascene/South Levantine accent). 1,813 WAV files + TextGrid phoneme labels. Also…

Quality (DQI) (8/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
a66b1d6ba1c5cc79570bffcd4d83b9ce566db2b4derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-05-20
Last Updated Date
2024-08-14derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Yes
Benchmark Citation
https://huggingface.co/atishay23/whisper-small-ar

Representativeness (DRI) (2/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Not stated
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Spoken
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation72%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/halabi2016/arabic_speech_corpus
Fetch Timestamp
20 May 2026
Content Hash
a66b1d6ba1c5cc79570bffcd4d83b9ce566db2b4

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

20 May 2026

Source status: Active

20 May 2026

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