Algerian Arabic Speech Database Project (ALGASD): Corpora's Elaboration

Abstract — This paper presents different steps followed to realize Algerian Speech Database (ALGASD) for standard Arabic language. The project concerns 300 Algerian native speakers whom are selected statistically from certain regions of the country and attempts to represent the principal variations of pronunciations denoted between the populations. Inspired by TIMIT protocol, ALGASD took into consideration the age and the education of each speaker. The basic text used to elaborate the database is constituted by 200 phonetically balanced sentences. Number of recorded sentences achieve to 1080 ones. Keywords—Database; Algerian; speec