Arabic Speech Corpus

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.

Note that in order to limit the required storage for preparing this dataset, the audio is stored in the .flac format and is not converted to a float32 array. To convert, the audio file to a float32 array, please make use of the `.map()` function as follows: ```python import soundfile as sf def map_to_array(batch): speech_array, _ = sf.read(batch["file"]) batch["speech"] = speech_array return batch dataset = dataset.map(map_to_array, remove_columns=["file"]) ```