Requests in Saudi Pidgin Arabic

Gulf Pidgin Arabic: A Descriptive and Statistical Analysis of Stability

Pidgin languages across the world are characterized by a universal set of linguistic features that, therefore, can be utilized for their identification. Among these linguistic traits, two are found in Gulf Arabic Pidgin (GPA); an overt reduction of sophisticated linguistic items and an increased regularity of less complicated linguistic items used to fulfill other linguistic functions (Nass, 20...

Saudi accented Arabic voice bank

The aim of this paper is to present an Arabic speech database that represents Arabic native speakers from all the cities of Saudi Arabia. The database is called the Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank (SAAVB). Preparing the prompt sheets, selecting the right speakers and transcribing their speech are some of the challenges that faced the project team. The procedures that met these challenges are h...

The function of Student Pidgin in Ghana

Using a Telephony Saudi Accented Arabic Corpus in Automatic Recognition of Spoken Arabic Digits

In this research, spoken Arabic digits are investigated from the speech recognition problem point of view. The system is designed to recognize an isolated whole-word speech. In the training and testing phase of this system, isolated digits data sets are taken from the telephony Arabic speech corpus, SAAVB. This standard corpus was developed by KACST and it is classified as a noisy speech databa...

A Preliminary Analysis of the Intonation of Riyadh Saudi Arabic

The aim of this paper is to present a phonetic and phonological analysis of the intonation of Riyadh Saudi Arabic (RSA). This paper focuses on the basic intonation patterns in sentences and questions. Section 2 of this paper gives a description of the methodology used in determining the intonation patterns. I also describe intonation and stress in declarative, imperative, and interrogative sent...