| | --- |
| | license: cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| | language: |
| | - ar |
| | multilinguality: |
| | - multilingual |
| | task_categories: |
| | - automatic-speech-recognition |
| | - audio-classification |
| | - text-to-speech |
| | tags: |
| | - arabic |
| | - arabic-dialects |
| | - egyptian-arabic |
| | - tunisian-arabic |
| | - gulf-arabic |
| | - levantine-arabic |
| | - speech-data |
| | - voice-ai |
| | - asr |
| | - tts |
| | - middle-east |
| | - north-africa |
| | - msa |
| | - dialectal-arabic |
| | pretty_name: "🇸🇦 Arabic Dialects Speech Dataset" |
| | size_categories: |
| | - n<1K |
| | --- |
| | |
| | # 🇸🇦 Arabic Dialects Speech Dataset |
| |
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| | <p align="left"> |
| | <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/69162b50b89e7abe20de4b5a/LWhs4p2lPFcyiVsP0tluu.png" width="40%"> |
| | </p> |
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| | [](https://www.silencioai.com) |
| | [](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com) |
| | [](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com) |
| |
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| | --- |
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| | > **🌍 Real Arabic dialects from native speakers across the Arab world.** |
| | > |
| | > **📧 Need more?** [sofia@silencioai.com](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com) — we have **8,000+ hours** of Arabic dialect data available. |
| |
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| | --- |
| |
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| | ## 🎯 Dataset Overview |
| |
|
| | **187 recordings** across **4 major Arabic dialect regions**, sourced from native speakers. |
| |
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| | | Dialect | Code | Samples | Countries | |
| | |---------|------|---------|-----------| |
| | | 🇪🇬 **Egyptian** | `egyptian` | 117 | Egypt (Cairene, Alexandrian) | |
| | | 🇹🇳 **Tunisian/Maghrebi** | `tunisian` | 55 | Tunisia, Algeria | |
| | | 🇸🇦 **Gulf** | `gulf` | 11 | Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar | |
| | | 🇯🇴 **Levantine** | `levantine` | 4 | Jordan, Syria, Lebanon | |
| |
|
| | ## 🚀 Quick Start |
| |
|
| | ```python |
| | from datasets import load_dataset |
| | |
| | # Load Egyptian Arabic |
| | egyptian = load_dataset("SilencioNetwork/arabic-dialects-speech", "egyptian") |
| | |
| | # Load Gulf Arabic |
| | gulf = load_dataset("SilencioNetwork/arabic-dialects-speech", "gulf") |
| | |
| | # Load Tunisian Arabic |
| | tunisian = load_dataset("SilencioNetwork/arabic-dialects-speech", "tunisian") |
| | |
| | for sample in egyptian['train']: |
| | audio = sample['audio'] |
| | transcript = sample['transcript'] |
| | dialect = sample['dialect'] |
| | print(f"[{dialect}] {transcript[:50]}...") |
| | ``` |
| |
|
| | ## 🌍 Why Arabic Dialects? |
| |
|
| | Arabic has massive dialectal variation — a model trained on MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) often fails on dialectal speech: |
| |
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| | - 🇪🇬 **Egyptian Arabic** — Most widely understood (media/film influence) |
| | - 🇸🇦 **Gulf Arabic** — Business and energy sector |
| | - 🇲🇦 **Maghrebi** — North Africa, French influence |
| | - 🇯🇴 **Levantine** — Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine |
| |
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| | This dataset captures **real dialectal speech** from native speakers. |
| |
|
| | ## 📊 Full Data Availability |
| |
|
| | | Dialect | Sample | Full Corpus | |
| | |---------|--------|-------------| |
| | | Egyptian | 117 | **3,500+ hours** | |
| | | Gulf (Saudi, UAE, Qatar) | 11 | **1,800+ hours** | |
| | | Maghrebi (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria) | 55 | **1,200+ hours** | |
| | | Levantine (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria) | 4 | **900+ hours** | |
| | | Iraqi | — | **400+ hours** | |
| | | **Total Arabic** | **187** | **8,000+ hours** | |
| |
|
| | ## ⚖️ License |
| |
|
| | **CC BY-NC 4.0** — Free for research and non-commercial use. |
| |
|
| | For **commercial licensing**, contact [sofia@silencioai.com](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com). |
| |
|
| | ## 📧 Get More Data |
| |
|
| | **📧 Email:** [sofia@silencioai.com](mailto:sofia@silencioai.com) |
| |
|
| | **🌐 Website:** [silencioai.com](https://www.silencioai.com) |
| |
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| | --- |
| |
|
| | ## Citation |
| |
|
| | ```bibtex |
| | @dataset{silencio_arabic_dialects_2025, |
| | title = {Arabic Dialects Speech Dataset}, |
| | author = {Silencio Network}, |
| | year = {2025}, |
| | publisher = {Hugging Face}, |
| | license = {CC BY-NC 4.0} |
| | } |
| | ``` |
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