AI RESEARCH
Ramsa: A Large Sociolinguistically Rich Emirati Arabic Speech Corpus for ASR and TTS
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.08125v1 Announce Type: new Ramsa is a developing 41-hour speech corpus of Emirati Arabic designed to sociolinguistic research and low-resource language technologies. It contains recordings from structured interviews with native speakers and episodes from national television shows. The corpus features 157 speakers (59 female, 98 male), spans subdialects such as Urban, Bedouin, and Mountain/Shihhi, and covers topics such as cultural heritage, agriculture and sustainability, daily life, professional trajectories, and architecture.