task_categories:automatic-speech-recognition annotations_creators:Geoffrey Khan annotations_creators:Matthew Nazari language:aii license:cc0-1.0 region:us
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license: cc0-1.0
pretty_name: Assyrian
annotations_creators:
- Geoffrey Khan
- Matthew Nazari
language: aii
size_category: n<1K
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
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# 🏴‍☠️ **_This dataset is depricated! Please see NENA Speech_** 🏴‍☠️

# Dataset Card for urmi_assyrian_voice

## Dataset Description

The Urmi Assyrian Voice dataset is parsed from the research and fieldwork of [Geoffrey Khan](https://cambridge.academia.edu/GeoffreyKhan) which is made public through the [North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Project](https://nena.ames.cam.ac.uk/dialects/225/audio). Annotation corrections as well as parsing was performed by Matthew Nazari.

## Dataset Summary

This dataset contains labelled audio examples of the Urmi dialect of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic. The dataset only consists of one female speaker in her late seventies. Note that you will need to normalize the utterances for machine learning tasks (clean punctuation, remove accents, etc).