首个面向城市级阿拉伯方言的语音数据集,助力细粒度方言识别。
ARCADE: A City-Scale Corpus for Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Tagging
- 从阿拉伯世界广播流中采集30秒音频片段,覆盖58城19国
- 含6907条标注,支持多任务学习与城市级方言分类
- 适合研究方言识别、语音处理及跨文化语言建模者
阿拉伯语具有丰富的地区方言差异,反映其使用者在地理与文化上的多样性。尽管已有多个多方言数据集,但将语音映射到细粒度方言源(如城市)仍研究不足。我们提出ARCADE(阿拉伯广播语音方言评估语料库),首个专为城市级方言粒度设计的阿拉伯语语音数据集。该语料库通过流媒体服务收集阿拉伯世界广播语音,数据管道提取经验证的30秒音频段,涵盖现代标准阿拉伯语(MSA)与多种方言。每段音频由1至3名母语阿拉伯语审校者标注,包含情感、语体、方言类别及方言识别有效性标记等丰富元数据。最终数据集包含6,907条标注和3,790个唯一音频片段,覆盖19个国家的58个城市。细粒度标注支持鲁棒的多任务学习,可作为城市级方言标注的基准。本文详述数据采集方法,评估音频质量,并提供标签分布的全面分析。数据集已公开于:https://huggingface.co/datasets/riotu-lab/ARCADE-full
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The Arabic language is characterized by a rich tapestry of regional dialects that differ substantially in phonetics and lexicon, reflecting the geographic and cultural diversity of its speakers. Despite the availability of many multi-dialect datasets, mapping speech to fine-grained dialect sources, such as cities, remains underexplored. We present ARCADE (Arabic Radio Corpus for Audio Dialect Evaluation), the first Arabic speech dataset designed explicitly with city-level dialect granularity. The corpus comprises Arabic radio speech collected from streaming services across the Arab world. Our data pipeline captures 30-second segments from verified radio streams, encompassing both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and diverse dialectal speech. To ensure reliability, each clip was annotated by one to three native Arabic reviewers who assigned rich metadata, including emotion, speech type, dialect category, and a validity flag for dialect identification tasks. The resulting corpus comprises 6,907 annotations and 3,790 unique audio segments spanning 58 cities across 19 countries. These fine-grained annotations enable robust multi-task learning, serving as a benchmark for city-level dialect tagging. We detail the data collection methodology, assess audio quality, and provide a comprehensive analysis of label distributions. The dataset is available on: https://huggingface.co/datasets/riotu-lab/ARCADE-full
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