MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform
Yousseif Elshahawy Yassine El Kheir Shammur Absar Chowdhury Ahmed Ali
We introduce MyVoice, a crowdsourcing platform designed to collect Arabic
speech to enhance dialectal speech technologies. This platform offers an
opportunity to design large dialectal speech datasets; and makes them publicly
available. MyVoice allows contributors to select city/country-level
fine-grained dialect and record the displayed utterances. Users can switch
roles between contributors and annotators. The platform incorporates a quality
assurance system that filters out low-quality and spurious recordings before
sending them for validation. During the validation phase, contributors can
assess the quality of recordings, annotate them, and provide feedback which is
then reviewed by administrators. Furthermore, the platform offers flexibility
to admin roles to add new data or tasks beyond dialectal speech and word
collection, which are displayed to contributors. Thus, enabling collaborative
efforts in gathering diverse and large Arabic speech data.