Emirati Dialect Audio Transcriptions from TV Shows and Podcasts

Giving access to segmented audio files and their transcriptions sourced from Emirati TV shows, podcasts, and YouTube channels. It is designed as a benchmark for Automatic Speech Recognition models for the Emirati dialect, covering categories like traditions, cars, health, games, sports, and police. The dataset was created by eabayed and last updated in May 2022.

Use Cases

• Train an Automatic Speech Recognition model on Emirati dialect audio files using the provided transcriptions as ground truth.
• Benchmark speech recognition performance across different content categories like traditions, health, and sports.
• Analyze linguistic features of the Emirati dialect using transcribed audio from TV shows and podcasts.

Strengths

• Covers multiple content categories including traditions, cars, health, games, sports, and police.
• Specifically designed for the Emirati dialect, addressing a niche in speech recognition.
• Last updated in May 2022, providing a snapshot of contemporary media.

Limitations

• The dataset size is categorized as 'n1 K', suggesting it may contain only a few thousand audio segments.
• No specific row count, column details, or sample data are provided for assessment.
• Potential geographic bias as data is sourced exclusively from Emirati media.

Provenance

Source

Audio sourced from Emirati TV shows, podcasts, and YouTube channels.

Collection Method

Audio segmentation and transcription, method details unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-05-30.

Geography

Emirati dialect, indicating origin from the United Arab Emirates.