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-license: cc-by-nc-2.0
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+---
+license: cc-by-nc-2.0
+language:
+- ar
+- en
+tags:
+- Arabic
+- English
+- Broadcast
+- Code-switching
+- Punctuation
+pretty_name: 'QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource'
+---
+# QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource
+
+**QASR** is the largest transcribed Arabic speech corpus with around **2,000 hours** of data.  
+It features **multi-layer annotation**, covering **multiple Arabic dialects** and **code-switching** speech.
+
+---
+
+## 📘 Overview
+
+QASR is a large-scale transcribed Arabic speech corpus collected from **Aljazeera News Channel** broadcasts.  
+The data is **lightly supervised** and **linguistically segmented**, designed to support a wide range of speech and language processing research tasks.
+
+### Key Features
+- ~2,000 hours of transcribed Arabic speech  
+- Multi-dialect and code-switching coverage  
+- Multi-layer linguistic annotations  
+- Lightly supervised transcriptions  
+- Linguistically motivated segmentation  
+
+---
+## 📄 Lisence
+
+Non-Commercial Purpose ONLY!
+
+---
+
+## 📥 Download
+
+You can request or download the dataset using the link below:
+
+👉 **[Download QASR Dataset](https://forms.gle/4U34R3Sy9xcmtuRw8)**  
+
+Please follow the instructions on the linked page to complete the request process and download the data.
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 Applications
+
+QASR is suitable for training and evaluating:
+
+- **Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)** systems  
+- **Arabic Dialect Identification** (acoustics- and linguistics-based)  
+- **Punctuation Restoration**  
+- **Speaker Identification** and **Speaker Linking**  
+- **Spoken Language Understanding** and other **NLP modules** for spoken data  
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Data Source
+
+The corpus was **crawled from the Aljazeera news channel**, providing rich diversity in topics, speakers, and dialectal variation.
+
+---
+
+## 📄 Citation
+
+If you use QASR in your research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@inproceedings{mubarak_qasr_2021,
+  title     = {{QASR}: {QCRI} {Aljazeera} {Speech} {Resource}. {A} {Large} {Scale} {Annotated} {Arabic} {Speech} {Corpus}},
+  booktitle = {{Proc. of ACL}},
+  author    = {Mubarak, Hamdy and Hussein, Amir and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
+  year      = {2021},
+}
+